In
proclaiming the truth that God is infinite—All—Christian Science is making known to humanity the tremendously important fact that whatever is unlike good is without actual or real being.
The belief that God required material sacrifices of His people—how persistently through the ages has this misconception hidden from them what alone it is that God does require of men! With the clarity of spiritual vision, the prophet Micah saw and declared it; but as so many others had done before, and were to do after him, he spoke to those who understood him not.
Christ
Jesus not only said, "I and my Father are one," but after his resurrection he also said to Mary Magdalene, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
On page 294 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy has written that if the Master were with us today, "he would mightily rebuke a single doubt of the ever-present power of divine Spirit to control all the conditions of man and the universe.
The
prophet Isaiah, moved to indignation as he was at the shortcomings and disobedience of the people, did not lose his confidence in the coming of Christ's kingdom.
Frequently
teachers and practitioners of Christian Science are asked by pupils or patients for advice as to what they should do in certain circumstances.