There is not a single problem confronting humanity today for which there is not a perfect solution, right where the difficulty seems to be. This cannot be understood from the standpoint of human reasoning, based on the belief that matter is substance. It can be clearly understood, however, through Christian Science, which teaches that divine Mind is substance, and that the true creation, in the words of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, "consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 503).

In the one hundred and forty-seventh Psalm we read, "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." Surely the Supreme Being, the one God, whose "understanding is infinite," cannot be less than infinite Mind, as Mrs. Eddy declares Him to be; and it is utterly inconceivable that this Mind should ever be aware of any problem. Students of Christian Science have entered the true path, which leads to the ultimate healing of every disease, the annihilation of every inharmony, and the blotting out of every sin.

After the student has gained a little understanding of this Science, if he is wise and alert, he begins to apply its precepts to the correction of his various difficulties; and it is natural and right that he should begin by solving the problem that is most troublesome. This may seem to him to be very poor health. A so-called incurable disease may have cast its bleak shadow over him for years, until happiness and peace are unknown, and hope seems almost a total stranger. When, for the first time, he comes face to face with the positive statement of divine Science that there is no incurable disease, a lively hope dawns; and if he has caught only a glimpse of the power and effulgence of Truth and Love, he will set about, earnestly, humbly, and steadfastly, to destroy the belief in disease, with its symptoms and effects. One is privileged to ask the help of a more experienced student, though this is not an invariable necessity, for thousands of cases have been healed by the study of the Christian Science textbook alone, testimonies of which can be read in the last chapter of that volume, entitled "Fruitage."

After the joy and exhilaration occasioned by their first healing have somewhat subsided, many students devote themselves to consecrated study of Christian Science and the earnest effort to demonstrate the power of Truth. Problem after problem may appear for solution; but the scientific method of healing, which is being learned in Christian Science, is adequate to solve them all, displacing every discord with harmony. There may be times when success is long delayed. It is at such times that we must "let patience have her perfect work;" for, as Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 204), "When the good fight is fought, error yields up its weapons and kisses the feet of Love, while white-winged peace sings to the heart a song of angels." Many times the victory over evil is quick and positive, but at other times it may only come after much patient striving to realize the fact that God never made evil, and that therefore it has no actual existence.

A young man, during the performance of his duties as an employee of a large firm, suffered an injury to one hand, and the symptoms of blood poisoning soon became apparent. He was a student of Christian Science, and immediately asked a practitioner for help. In order to receive compensation for the time he was unable to work, however, it was necessary, under the workmen's compensation law in the state in which he lived, to have a doctor examine his hand and arm. When the doctor saw the condition, he told the young man it was imperative that the hand should be amputated at once, in order to avoid fatal consequences.

The young man immediately consulted a practitioner, who advised him to put his whole trust in God. Because of his own faith, the student sought no other aid but that of Christian Science; and, as a result of patient mental work, the condition was completely healed, and he returned to work with two hands instead of one. He received compensation for the time he had been away; and when informed that, had he lost his hand, he would have received a thousand dollars, he replied, "What is a thousand dollars to my hand?"

This incident proved that one's faith and trust in God are not in vain, and also the superiority of Christian Science healing over material methods. To spiritual sense, which is indestructible, accidents, pain, fear, sin, disease, and death are unknown. This pure sense cannot testify to error or evil.

When mortals begin to rise from the belief in the reliability of the physical senses, so called, to the understanding and acceptance of the changeless evidence of spiritual sense regarding God, man, and the universe, they have begun to learn the fundamental facts of Christian Science. If they consistently obey the rules of this Science, they can no more be prevented from correctly solving the problems of daily living than the mathematician can be prevented from getting the right answers to his problems when he obeys the rules of mathematics.

Humanity is aware of the many inaccuracies and falsities of the five personal senses. An automobile approaching on the highway appears to change its size as it progresses, and yet we all accept the fact that its size remains the same. A spoon placed in a glass of water appears to be bent; yet no one believes that this is so. Where there is a conflict between reason and the senses, reason is always accepted, and sense testimony denied.

Mrs. Eddy discovered that the five senses of mortals are entirely unreliable, that they testify to one thing at one time and to the opposite at another; therefore they cannot possibly be bestowed on man by infinite wisdom and Love.

She saw that if we accept the fact that God is unlimited in goodness and absolute in power, we cannot agree in the least with the belief of the so-called material senses that evil is real and powerful. Evil and matter have no real existence, because they are not created by God.

Mrs. Eddy's discovery included the recognition of the fact that if we steadfastly hold to the allness of God, good, and insistently deny reality and power to evil in all its phases, the testimony of the five senses will yield to better beliefs, until ultimately all false evidence vanishes. Thus, through spiritual understanding, man will eventually be known as the perfect, immortal expression of the one infinite Mind, whose name is Love.

Copyright, 1939, by The Christian Science Publishing Society, One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Entered at Boston post office as second-class matter. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 11, 1918.