Article December 5, 1959 Issue

THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS

W. STUART BOOTH

Every human being is desirous of happiness, but the means and methods employed in the effort to gain happiness differ widely. Until Christian Science lifts the thought of men Spiritward, most of them regard happiness as being dependent upon various material conditions and situations, or upon the presence or perhaps upon the absence of certain personalities.

Thus happiness is commonly regarded as being undependable if not unattainable. Writing in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" of her early experience, Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 152), "Every material dependence had failed her in her search for truth; and she can now understand why, and can see the means by which mortals are divinely driven to a spiritual source for health and happiness."

When Mrs. Eddy experienced her healing of the effects of an accident through spiritual power and means alone, she saw that the healings wrought by Christ Jesus had been accomplished in accordance with God's will and because of the divine law of perfection and harmony. These healings were scientific as well as Christian, because they evidenced the fact that God is Love, giving good only, and that God's unchangeable law is ever operative and ever available.

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