To find God is always to find spiritual good. It is to find the only Father-Mother, the only cause, presence, substance, power, action, and law, here and now. To find the greatness and broadness of God's goodness is to find health when sickness seems real; light when clouds befog the vision; supply when lack seems present; and courage in the midst of discouragement. To find God, good, at all times is to win a new sense of regenerated life, putting off the old for the new, entering the Holy of Holies when storm, darkness, superstition, or fear seem present. This is possible to-day for those who are actively relying on the spiritual truth of being with some measure of understanding.

David found God as power and protection through childlike trust and humility, else the arrogance, hatred, and boasting of the great Philistine could not have been rendered powerless. Daniel found God through faith and a higher understanding of Him, else the jaws of the roaring lions would not have been closed. The three Hebrew boys found God through fearless fidelity, right prayer, and an abiding trust in the ever-presence and omnipotence of the living God—their God. "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace," is an utterance that will stand forever. Their God did deliver them; and the scorching heat of the fiery furnace was nothing to them. Could it have been otherwise when the Christ walked with them in consciousness in the midst of the flames?

In faithfulness, prayerfulness, humility, and obedience Moses smote the rock with his rod, and water poured forth. This same rod divided the Red Sea, and caused it to close upon the chariots and horsemen of the enemy; and the children of Israel went forward protected and delivered. The same chariots of hatred, jealousy, superstition, idolatry, mesmerism,—all phases of evil, with their dominating, educated, deceptive presentments,—are swallowed up this day through spiritual understanding, and the children of light do go onward and upward, working, rejoicing, knowing, praying, and obeying the voice of the living God—our God. Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, did all his mighty works, opening the eyes of the blind, causing the lame to walk, and overcoming death, through finding God where the wilderness, the tempestuous waters, and the gloomy sepulcher seemed to be. His unity with the Father was never lost sight of for a single moment, however severe the struggle.

When the stones of bigotry and hatred were hurled at Jesus he knew he was safe in the arms of divine Love, and so could not be harmed. When the jealous crowds scoffed and jeered, he held his peace; and when his impetuous disciple denied him, he loved all the more. The cross only called forth the loving plea, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." This exclamation told the story of his love then, as it is telling it to-day in all lands. Our beloved Master found God, good; and to him there was no evil, no jealousy, no hatred, no suffering, and no death. All was God, and God's goodness was therefore everywhere.

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through humility, obedience to Truth, persistent working, watching, and praying, followed the light, and found God and His spiritual law as revealed in Christian Science. It was through severe trials that she brought forth divine Science, gave it to a heavily laden, dissatisfied, sick, and sinning humanity, and showed how to find the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God, the God who heals all our diseases and washes us white as snow, through enabling us to overcome evil with good. Let us love her with a purer, more unselfed love! Let us follow Truth's clarion call more obediently, more accurately, more willingly, casting out vainglory, human opinion, and foolish questioning. Then we shall climb the rugged crags joyously, as the eagle mounts upward, as Mrs. Eddy says (Poems, p. 18).

Before one can find God, good, he must know something of the nature and qualities of God and of the power and operation of spiritual law. Then he must apply this knowing to each problem, and work it out according to the rule of Christian Science, which is that "man shall utilize the divine power," as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 69). To "utilize the divine power" is first to see the problem as it appears to human sense, then to find the counter fact, or reality, and to cling unswervingly to the truth, denying the error regardless of what it claims to be or to do. To believe in any degree in the presence or power of a false claim brings a mistake into the problem and produces an incorrect result. All is God, good, and error is entirely false—nothing—in every case. There can be no mixing or adulterating in the utilization of divine power.

When sickness seems real, we must find health to be real, and enthrone that in our thinking. When death seems imminent, we must find God, Life, and know that Life is not in or of matter, and can no more be lost than God can be lost, because Life is infinite, permanent, and indestructible. When anger screams and rages, we must find God as Love, and man as His peaceful, loving, and lovable reflection, untouched by mortal belief of irritation, sensitiveness, or resentment. If, to mortal sense, home appears discordant, to turn quickly to the true sense of home, which is plentifully supplied with all good and governed by divine law, with all God's ideas manifesting kindness, consideration, gratitude, and unselfishness, is to find the available, ever present God. In business perplexities, to know that man's business is to reflect God, removes fear, and turns the gaze toward light instead of darkness. In livid lightning, in storm or flood, in pestilence, famine, fire, amid hatred, discouragement, accident, or inharmonious church relations, to utilize the power and might of divine Love is to find God, good, and thus to bring reality into present manifestation.

There is no place in which God cannot be found; no condition which divine law cannot govern; no home in which harmony cannot be manifested; no lack which cannot be supplied; and no darkness which cannot be displaced by the sunlight of God, good. Through this process of knowing we eliminate error. On page 201 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read: "The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love. Christian perfection is won on no other basis."

To find God in every situation, every hour of every day, regardless of the struggle involved and the striving necessary, is to prove that Christian Science is practical. It is the daily work of all who have named the name of Science. We know, and we must live what we know. "By their fruits ye shall know them."