We have no record that Jesus did any healing works until after his baptism by the Holy Ghost. It is therefore of vital importance for all who desire to follow in his steps, to ascertain what this baptism is, how he obtained it, and how it can be attained to-day. There has always been much mystery woven around the question of what constitutes baptism by the Holy Ghost, and it has thereby been removed from the realm of the practical and the attainable, even as has also so-called miracle-working. Those who maintain that the command of Jesus to heal the sick is inoperative now, have in so doing either denied that baptism by the Holy Ghost has now any power to heal, or have admitted that orthodox Christianity is really without such baptism. If the latter is true, the Christianity of today stands convicted of being confined to its letter only. The first cannot be true, for the power of God, of "His Christ," and of the Holy Ghost changeth not.
In the Bible we find that the Holy Ghost is also called the "Spirit of truth" and the Comforter. It is part of the mission of Christian Science to restore this broader significance of the "Holy Ghost," and bring into every one's experience the consciousness of this comforting and healing ever-presence as a loving and indispensable companion. This consciousness is the Divine Science which Jesus lived and demonstrated, and which unfolded in him the Christ, his divine nature. Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has gathered together the lost sheep, driven out on the hills by creed and doctrine, and through her understanding of the "Spirit of truth" is bringing them back into the one fold, even man's uplifted consciousness. This spiritual understanding, the Science of Christianity, or Christian Science, has come as the Master foretold. He said that after his departure the Father would send another Comforter, to abide forever, "even the Spirit of truth."
In Christian Science there is no mystery about the baptism or purification by the Holy Spirit. Jesus taught that it was our privilege and duty to know Divine truth, and that "the Spirit of truth" would guide us into all truth. Surely there can be no mystery in that truth which is to guide us to God. Christ Jesus is admitted to be the ideal of Christianity, and if we wish to be like him, and do the works that he did, it behooves us to ascertain how he became filled with the Holy Ghost, the "Spirit of truth."
