The
importance of understanding the character of divinity is seen when someone is healed at his first inkling that God does not send evil to humanity or even permit it, since He is infinite good.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland,
an American authoress, once wrote: "To wrench from the ores of the earth, the treasures of the sea, the elements of the air, the secret of their functions and their affinities, the laws of their being, the springs of their action—this is very noble and very good.
One
cannot fail to be impressed by the spiritual insight which enabled Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, to recognize that material existence in all its phases is unreal, a state of self-deception to those who accept it, and not the reality of being.