On page 101 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Science of omnipotence demonstrates but one power, and this power is good, not evil; not matter, but Mind. This virtually destroyed matter and evil; including sin and disease." Scientifically, everything comes under the head of actual or inactual, omnipotent or impotent. The terms powerful and powerless are not comparative, for infinite, all-powerful good is beyond compare.

Whatever appears to the physical senses to be material and temporal is the effect of ignorance of Truth, and ignorance is not an entity, but a nonentity. Only distrust of the infinite entity of Spirit could dupe one into fearing a nonentity. True existence expresses the unrivaled power of the divine Principle, Love, and its invariable harmony. Christian Science teaches that all power is vested in the one Life, God, and that since there is no cessation of Life, there is no actual death. So-called death is the consequence of believing that life is physical and organic. Therefore death is not overcome by yielding to this belief of organic life and death, but by mastering it, step by step. Even as Spirit is indestructible, so is man's life spiritual and indestructible. This knowledge, demonstrated by means of "the Science of omnipotence," is destined to prove the unreality of the experience called death. Every least demonstration of this Science therefore be regarded as a step towards winning the final victory over "the last enemy."

The ideas of Spirit, representing health, righteousness, eternality, know nothing of disease, sin, or death. Infinite Spirit, their source, has never been invaded by matter, nor truth by error. Thinking from the standpoint of impregnable truth, the student of Christian Science discovers the way out of human dilemmas. When seeming to be obsessed by some form of error, he takes refuge in "the Science of omnipotence," which includes nothing wrong or uncertain. Courageously obedient, he acknowledges that truth, upholding the power of its own witnesses, prohibits the presence of any false belief or false believer. Growing calmer through this acknowledgment, he then rejoices in knowing that no lie has ever proceeded from truth, and that nothing inglorious mars the radiance of infinite Love or casts a shadow of error in the consciousness of man.

The purpose of Christian Science is to demonstrate the universal, ever-present supremacy of divine Mind. Paul spoke of "the exceeding greatness of his mighty power." This one to the working of his mighty power." This "mighty power," being infallible, is subject to nothing fallible. The one Ego being divinely self-assertive, this fact, utilized, silences the self-assertive beliefs of fear, sin, suffering. The claim of intelligence, life, and sensation in matter is an assumption and a presumption—never a fact. The egotism of mortal mind is banished in proportion as human thought acknowledges but one Ego, God, and the ego man, His likeness, or reflection.

Our Leader writes (ibid., p. 336): "Mind is supreme: Love is the master of hate; Truth, the victor over a lie. Hath not Science voiced this lesson to you,—that evil is powerless, that a lie is never true?" That which is omnipresent is indubitably omnipotent. Fortified by this the Christian Scientist learns how to remain unshaken by the testimony of the senses. Knowing that his spiritual fidelity is engrafted in divine Principle, he testifies without hesitation to the unrestricted operation of spiritual law which cannot be rendered ineffectual.

The Revelator declared, "Thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." The power of God is everlastingly self-enthroned; this fact needs to be enthroned in human thought through spiritual understanding, and Christian Science is accomplishing this. But the letter of this Science is not enough. is alone does not always suffice to awaken one from the dream of evil. We need also "the Spirit of truth," the assurance of divine Love, the serene confidence that the power of God is unrivaled, and that the kingdom of heaven, or government of divine Principle, is present to be felt and demonstrated by all here and now. As followers of Christ Jesus, we are bent upon realizing the spiritual altitude from which we may say, as did Christ Jesus, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth."

Christian Science is the final revelation of real being. It enables the alert Christian Scientist to prove that the omnipotence of God is enthroned in his own consciousness, and that no rival supposition exists to deceive or mystify him. Faith and understanding are spiritual, enduring, and constantly unfolding. Utilizing these gifts of God to the full, Christian Scientists are proving themselves capable of expressing health, despite man-made laws regarding climate, heredity, constitution. They are learning to express joy, in spite of seeming loss. They are manifesting strength over and above the arguments of faintheartedness. They are drawing inspiration from our Leader's words (Unity of Good, p. 7), "An incontestable point in divine Science is that because God is All, a realization of this fact dispels even the sense or consciousness of sin, and brings us nearer to God, bringing out the highest phenomena of the All-Mind."

Violet Ker Seymer