Jesus was the Founder of Christian Science. His demonstrations over the beliefs of matter made him "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," for them, and for them only, who follow in the footsteps of his demonstrations. His contribution to human consciousness was the demonstration of Love, Truth, and Life as the realities of being, and evil, sickness, and death as unrealities. What had been a state of perception, and could, therefore, only be shadowed by Moses, David, and Isaiah, Jesus advanced to understanding. He made the life of Spirit real to human consciousness. He and his apostles established the Christian warfare as the struggle between the carnal, fleshly mind, or sense, and Spirit.
They did not leave the formula of their demonstrations, and because the human mind was not on a plane high enough to maintain their practice, and not having the rule —the manifestations of divine power in the healing of sickness as well as of sin, as practiced by Jesus, passed into tradition.
Neither from the Scriptures of the Old nor the New Testament can be deduced formulæ by which the men and women of to-day can heal sickness and sin by clearly defined scientific methods, and with the certainty of process and result, that characterize the operation of Divine Law; by which individuals can determine, day by day, their exact position in the Christian life with as much definiteness as the navigator determines that of his ship by the aid of instruments and charts.
