In his book entitled "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait" (1950 Edition), Lyman P. Powell writes of Mrs. Eddy (p. 101): "She discovered Christian Science in a larger sense than ever Columbus discovered America. Hers was no peep at a new world and then a scuttling back to the old. Hers was that real discovery which consists of finding an age-old truth, settling in it, sharing it with others, and making the most of it for the redemption of the world from sickness, sin, and death."'

After Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science, she never for an instant considered turning away from this truth, for she knew this was the way, revealed to her by God, for the salvation of all mankind. No student of Christian Science can consider any lesser loyalty to Truth than that demonstrated by the Leader of the Christian Science movement, who followed so closely in the footsteps of our Way-shower, Christ Jesus.

One can reasonably ask: "Is there another way to salvation? What is there to turn back to?" When the spiritual facts of the allness of God, Spirit, and of man's relationship to Him as His reflection are firmly established in an individual's thought, then the individual is convinced of the unreality of any other so-called power or presence, regardless of any adverse physical sense testimony. Truth is infinite, right where matter and its false claims seem to be. Painless, harmonious being is all that is ever actually present.

In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we read (p. 471), "The facts of divine Science should be admitted,—although the evidence as to these facts is not supported by evil, by matter, or by material sense,—because the evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by spiritual sense." As we admit these spiritual facts into thought, accept them, and express them in deeds, we cease to give power or presence to lying, false beliefs, and the effects of these beliefs cease to appear in our outward experience.

I once had an experience which required that I take a firm stand on the side of God, with no scuttling back to a belief in the reality of suffering or in the threat of the extermination of my human existence. Although the inharmonious condition repeatedly presented itself over a period of some months, I at no time indulged in discouragement and fear. I knew absolutely that I was protected by God's loving care. I had experienced this care on too many previous occasions to entertain any doubt of God's omnipotence at this time. Each attack was met by my knowing it had no past, present, or future, in fact; no existence at all, for it was no part of God's infinitely good creation.

On the occasion of the last attack, I reasoned aloud that error was incapable of extinguishing eternal Life or of doing anything to God, good, for it was powerless and actually nonexistent; that it could not intimidate me, for I knew that I was the harmonious image of God at that very moment, that as God's manifestation, I could express only the perfection of my creator.

There was no temptation to compromise with mortal mind or to make concessions to it. And soon all the suffering and its effects left, never to return; thus I demonstrated again the statement found on page 400 of Science and Health, "By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error."

In the Bible we find this helpful advice which Jesus gave to all his disciples (Luke 9:62): "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Whatever is unlike God must not be admitted into consciousness. We should consider Truth too precious to be forsaken for an argument based on the testimony of material sense. We prove our love for God by our fidelity to Truth right in the presence of any lie.

Mrs. Eddy says in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 277), "No evidence before the material senses can close my eyes to the scientific proof that God, good, is supreme." Our persistent endeavor must be to have our eyes opened to God's supremacy. As we love God, good, with all the loyalty and moral courage of which we are capable, we shall demonstrate that we actually are His children right now, that we are privileged to manifest today the perfection which is always ours.