As a divine messenger the prophet Isaiah communicated to his fellow men the revelation which he had received from God. The primary object of this stern reprover of sin was religious instruction; he labored to awaken the people to higher moral and spiritual knowledge. The Scriptures record this man of God as declaring in obedience to the divine will, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." He further declared, "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"
Correlative to the prophet's statements we find on page 450 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy's words: "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good.", The one unchanging and irresistible rule by which mankind may be emancipated from evil and enter into eternal life was given by him who proved his words by his works, and who said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
Regardless of the many theories advanced of how to work out life's problem through the various systems of religious worship, the fact remains that the way of Christ Jesus is the one way. Hence, as there is but one absolute and true way to overcome and destroy the evil conditions of sin, disease, and death, which rob humanity of man's divine inheritance, it necessarily follows that for all to be saved (and all must be) each and every individual must submit to and apply the same rule to his individual problem. This enlistment to lessen distress, due to the belief that substance, intelligence, and power inhere in matter, provides a wider scope of usefulness than the mere endeavor to work out one's individual salvation. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ," is the admonition of St. Paul.
