This word Truth seems a mystery to many, when first taking up the study of Christian Science. There should be no mystery about it. What is the truth regarding anything? Simply and purely the facts, or truth, regarding it. Now when we look at Jesus' mission in this light, there is nothing hidden or mysterious in it. He simply came to show man the Truth, the fact, in regard to God, and man's relation to Him.
Mankind had been living in a false sense of things, which Jesus plainly states in John, 8: 44, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." That seems plain enough; mankind had been living a lie, Jesus came to awaken them to the truth, the reality of things. The things we have always believed are the things that are hard to get rid of; yet these are just what we must get rid of as they are not the facts or truth of things.
Many say, in speaking of Christian Science, "It is so new, so different, from anything we ever had before." Thank God it is different from what we have believed heretofore. Does not the world need something new, something different? In this difference of belief, or understanding, lies the salvation of mankind. This very difference is what enraged the Jews in early times. They were self-satisfied; what they had they did not wish to give up.
