Truth is everywhere. Mrs. Eddy says in "Unity of Good" (p. 4), "Truth is God, and in God's law." This law of God is universal. It operates throughout the uttermost parts of the earth. To the divine intelligence there are no dark corners, no unenlightened people. The light of universal Love is impartial and shines upon all alike. God is forever one with His creation; and Christian Scientists, understanding this, recognize the activity of God's law everywhere, among all nations and peoples.

Divine Principle is ever with men, dominating every situation or circumstance, awakening them to think and to do that which is right. False education sustains the belief that each one has a mind and opinions of his own apart from God, a mind which is ignorant of Truth. One may even think it is possible to have a mind which resists Truth; but this belief has no foundation in fact. It cannot persist in face of true knowledge. True knowledge that divine Mind, God, is the only Mind, having absolute jurisdiction over the universe and man, will meet and overcome any claim of confused mentality.

Wherever man is, God is, since God is the source of all true being. Always God is here, mindful of His own! His loving purpose never ceases to urge every individual in the direction of right thought and action. Working in obedience to this divine purpose, we dissociate every baseless error of belief from our thought of man.

Whatever may be the evidence before the material senses, however much the power of evil may pretend to confuse the thoughts of men, producing disaster and destruction, such appearances cannot dismay one who fully understands the force of universal spiritual law, which overturns and overturns "until he come whose right it is." No presumptuous claim of personal power can dethrone Deity or in the slighest degree deface or defame the one and only creation of Mind, God. No human conjecture can upset the equilibrium of divine Mind. Unbelief is a state of mortal illusion, unawareness of true existence, and true existence continues to be true, unaware of illusion. It is beyond and above all mortal sense of time and space.

Knowledge of the truth is power; and spiritual power is the only power. This knowledge is never shaken or confounded by ignorance, whereas ignorance is overcome by true knowledge. The supremacy of divine law is as sure as the fact that there is one cause and creator.

A man who was healed of dishonesty, drunkenness, and immorality through the unwavering confidence of a friend in the fact that God is ever present, afterward said that in his worst moments he had seen clearly what was right, but that the determination of human will to justify itself had battled continually with his right desire. Companions persuaded him in the wrong direction until his friend, finding him in degradation and distress, and knowing the sufficiency of the grace of God, through the understanding of Christian Science, healed him. The true knowledge that God is present, supporting the inherent tendency to do right, proved stronger than the false belief, and the man found himself turning to God as naturally as a flower turns to the sun. This experience illustrates the fact that an intelligent realization of the universality of good is of great service to mankind. "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul."

What is true can be proved, and since right thinking is our heritage, it can be maintained. When we understand this, no erroneous argument can persuade us to be fearful or doubtful, and there cannot be in our thinking any selfish or unworthy motive which might defeat the pure and scientific purpose of divine wisdom. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." This will be seen as human ambition, opinions, and vainglory in the thoughts of men find their level of nothingness. "No human hypotheses," our Leader says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 25, 26), "whether in philosophy, medicine, or religion, can survive the wreck of time; but," she continues, "whatever is of God, hath life abiding in it, and ultimately will be known as self-evident truth, as demonstrable as mathematics."

God being the only lawmaker, He cannot be aware of any law unlike divine law. Understanding this, we see that there is no basis for false supposition on our part. Mortal belief cannot and does not actually hold man in illusion. Loyal Christian Scientists do not question or wonder where error began or whither it is tending, understanding as they do its unreality. They accept the premise that in divine Mind there are no questions, and through their knowledge of Mind they find the answers to all human questioning. From this premise they draw the conclusion that uncertain thinking is false, mental suggestion. The divine consciousness is one, and in this oneness there is no uncertainty. The perfect intelligence is expressed in man. "Wisdom is justified of her children." Being the offspring of the one steadfast Mind, we are able to rout the temptation to be swayed by human opinions or conditions. Any belief which opposes divine Mind must ultimately be seen and proved to be unreal and imaginative in its nature.

The power that stilled the tempest is even now with us. Although error may seem to be having its way with the world, the sovereignty of God must be and is forever universal. It is in the university of divine Mind that the thoughts of men find refuge and satisfaction. Let human will claim to do its worst, the law of God remains supreme. It awakens mankind to see that mortal belief is merely illusion, and to understand the divine law of salvation. "Let God be true, but every man a liar." In "No and Yes" our Leader writes (p. 8), "We can rejoice that every germ of goodness will at last struggle into freedom and greatness, and every sin will so punish itself that it will bow down to the commandments of Christ,—Truth and Love."