Christian Science teaches us to strive to lift our vision above the evidence of the material senses out into the wide infinity of absolute truth, out from narrow, relative view where evil seems so real, and so much would seem to contradict the omnipresence of love and good, into the understanding of God as All-in-all, and the consequent recognition of the unreality of anything unlike Him.
Christian Science accepts statements and makes declarations concerning God which are accepted and made by every other Christian religion, among which are the following: that God is the only creator; that God is Spirit; that God made man in His image and likeness; that God pronounced all that He made good; that God is all-power—omnipotence; that God is everywhere—omnipresence; that God is all-knowledge—omniscience.
Not
long ago, in trying to become conscious of the oneness and allness of God and the nothingness of the claim of error for a friend, my eyes rested on this sentence in Science and Health.
One
of the benefits which come to us through the understanding of Christian Science is the removal of the veil which in former times seemed to be over the Scriptures.
The
writer's boyhood days were passed on an island, and one of his amusements was to go to the seashore to watch the little fishes as they darted to and fro in the pools that were left by the outgoing tide.
The
injunction in Hebrews, that we "lay hold upon the hope set before us," implies the necessity for mentally grasping, appropriating, and applying those blessings which the one Spirit is constantly revealing to the pure in heart and to the needy.
The cause of Christian Science was founded so entirely on the Scriptures and the teachings and works of Jesus Christ, with the understanding that God is its divine Principle, that no earnest student or seeker can be disturbed concerning its future.
