Principle is always the same, — neither advancing, retreating, nor halting.
Our highest sense of infinite Good in this mortal sphere is but the sign and symbol, not the Substance of Good. Only faith and a feeble understanding make the earthly acme of human sense. “The Life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God” (Galatians ii. 20).
Christian Science is both demonstration and fruition, but how attenuated are our demonstration and realization of this Science! Truth, in Divine Science, is the stepping-stone to the understanding of God; but the broken and contrite heart soonest discerns this Truth, even as the helpless sick are soonest healed by it. Invalids say, “I have recovered from sickness;” when the fact really remains, in Divine Science, that they never were sick.
The Christian saith “Christ (God) died for me, and came to save me;” yet God dies not, and is the ever-presence that neither comes nor goes, and man is forever His image and likeness. “The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are unseen are eternal” (2 Corinthians iv. 18). This is the mystery of godliness — that
