The work of Christ Jesus reveals a simple and clearly understandable pattern, in the light of Christian Science. He was consistently teaching and demonstrating the real nature of Life. The people about him, like humanity in general down to this time, had meagerly understood this divine Principle, and had had correspondingly a meager and troubled experience; but Jesus declared, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." With his superb understanding, he was come that they might see, as he did, that Life is not the limited and insecure thing that to their human sense it had seemed, but that it is God, as the Scriptures implied; that it is therefore incorporeal, unlimited, utterly good and eternal, and that it needs only to be understood to be proved so.
"This is life eternal," he declared, "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
In his mighty works he was setting before his followers, with the resourcefulness born of a clear understanding of his oneness with God, infinite Mind, convincing and comprehensive evidences of the true quality of Life, as contrasted with their mistaken view of it. They had believed, for example, that life was subject to disease; but again and again, through healing the sick, he showed them that it was not. He "had compassion" on the sick, he relieved them of suffering and frustration, but it is plain that the import of what he was doing reached farther than that. He was proving that disease itself is merely a false sense, an illusion; that Life, being God, is forever untouched by it, forever perfect and harmonious, and that man as God's likeness reflects this Life, and there is no other.
