Article November 1, 1941 Issue

Science Satisfies

[Written Especially for Young People]

HENDRIK J. DE LANGE

Christian Science stills all longings and dissolves all temptations. The human sense of existence is a state of desire, the desire for something which this sense cannot procure: completeness. According to this sense man is a material person, a limited mind enclosed in a perishable body. Hence the longing, the temptation, the dissatisfaction.

By revealing God as the source of all truth and reality, Christian Science proclaims that we are not to reckon ourselves "of the earth, earthy." The true and real man, the only man, finds his origin and existence in that which is Truth and reality. As Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 475) concerning man, "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas."

Man is the full manifestation of the complete source, infinite good, which is all-inclusive. Consequently, man is a state of absolute completeness and of full spiritual satisfaction. Man has nothing to desire. Whatever could be humanly desired, is already divinely provided for in man—the true idea of God. To look for satisfaction to something materially outside, is to look for it in the wrong direction. When we realize that satisfaction is an idea which man spiritually includes, it will be found always within. That is why Christ Jesus declared, "The kingdom of God is within you."

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