Throughout
human history men have associated themselves in tribes, clans, and nations because of common interests and aims or for the purpose of mutual protection against potential enemies.
The
Christian Scientist never ceases to be grateful that Christian Science enables him to distinguish between spiritual truth and material belief, between the real and the unreal.
When
Paul wrote, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage," he was appealing to the Galatians on the basis of faithfulness to their spiritual convictions.
God's
purpose is beneficent, irrepealable, and its glad recognition and appropriation rule out the belief in evil and bring health and harmony into human experience.
The
world should rejoice that the glad message of Christ Jesus, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," is being repeated, explained, and made practical by Christian Science.
Christian Scientists rejoice in knowing God as Principle because the word conveys to them the sense of His absolute unchangeableness and permanence, besides giving them an understanding of Him as the cause of all that really exists.
With
what relief the sufferer who turns to Christian Science learns for the first time that true thinking can emancipate him from the slavery of disease and disability.
According
to material sense testimony mankind's enjoyment of good—health, harmony, and happiness—seems insecure; whereas evil experiences, such as sickness and sin, discord and disappointment, appear so prevalent that men are prone to be uncertain, doubtful, and fearful in regard to their status and welfare.