Are you a carpenter? If so, would you bore a round hole intended to receive a square peg? Are you a tailor? If so, would you make a collar three sizes too small to fit the neck of a coat? Absurd, senseless questions, you may say. Yet many of us go around consciously or unconsciously thinking that God, the all-intelligent Mind, is capable of errors of judgment; else why all this seeming discord around us?

Christian Science teaches that if we would find peace, happiness, satisfaction, we must search for them elsewhere than in materiality and physical causation. The opposite of materiality is spirituality. Where can we learn of the spiritual man and the spiritual universe?

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, found the answer to this question in an earnest study of the Scriptures. After her discovery of Christian Science, she devoted several years to a deep search for the truths presented in the Bible. Thereafter she presented to the world her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Today this textbook of Christian Science can be found beside the King James Version of the Bible in a great number of homes in many parts of the world. These two books, inseparable, interlocked, are daily teaching one how he may turn away from the mortal, material concept of man and the universe and find the spiritual concept.

In the very first chapter of the Bible we learn that God created all, including man. In the last book of the Bible, John tells us why God created all things. He says (Rev. 4:11), "For thy pleasure they are and were created." And through the prophet Isaiah, God said of man (43:7), "I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him."

In Christian Science one synonym for God is Love. Is it conceivable that God, Love, finds pleasure in destroying the beauty He created or in torturing the man He made? Let us ask ourselves, "Could God glory in a discordant man, a misfit in the universe?" Common sense answers, "No."

One page 327 of Science and Health, our Leader makes this statement: "Reason is the most active human faculty." And on page 467 she writes, "Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter."

In giving Christian Science treatment, one does not look towards a discordant body in an attempt to heal it; he turns completely away from the picture painted by mortal mind. Instead of seeing with the material eye, one looks deep into the realm of Mind and beholds the spiritual man of God's creating, made in His perfect likeness. One reasons that imperfection is impossible as a product of this perfect Mind.

One day the writer was told that her little grandson had a high temperature and had eaten nothing for two days. That evening, whilst doing some prayerful work for the child as requested by the child's mother, an angel message was presented in the following words of a hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 51):

The writer questioned, "What is God's work?" Turning to the Bible, she read the first chapter of Genesis, which gives the true version of creation, and came to verses 26 and 27: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Then the writer saw how perfect and harmonious the work of God, Love, really is when viewed spiritually. She began to reason from cause to effect. She reasoned that since God created all things, including man in His own image and likeness, everything in God's universe works together harmoniously according to His plan. "Love's work and Love must fit." She saw that Mind, divine intelligence, created man and his real food as spiritual ideas.

She no longer saw a human child being fit or unfit to receive material food, but a spiritual idea emanating from God, divine Mind, partaking of food from Mind and expressing the qualities of that Mind and thus manifesting the effect of complete harmony. The little boy was freed immediately. He arose the next morning with normal temperature, and that day he ate three hearty meals.

In scientific reasoning, one must be careful to keep within the rules of Christian Science, the spiritual law of God. To begin reasoning with Mind and to conclude with matter is not scientific, since all Christianly scientific practice is based on God, Mind, Spirit, as All-in-all. In Christian Science we learn that both cause and effect are spiritual.

It was the knowledge of this truth which enabled Christ Jesus to feed the five thousand. He knew that the spiritual idea of food was not to be found in five loaves and two small fishes, but was as infinite as its creator. Jesus' spiritual discernment of the truth concerning food brought abundant supply to meet the need of the multitude. Nor does the Bible mention that they were unable to take the food, for we read (Luke 9:17), "And they did eat, and were all filled."

In her work "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mrs. Eddy states (p. 349), "Inductive or deductive reasoning is correct only as it is spiritual, induced by love and deduced from God, Spirit; only as it makes manifest the infinite nature, including all law and supplying all the needs of man."

Peace, health, happiness, are ours individually in the measure that we see ourselves as "the work of his hands" (Job 34:19), as included in God's plan, subject only to His law; when we know Him, divine Mind, everlasting Love, as the only cause and creator and acknowledge that "Love's work and Love must fit."