All who subscribe to the tenets of The Mother Church make the following acknowledgment: "We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Wayshower" (Science and Health, p. 497).
The word Wayshower implies a knowledge of the way. We wish to emphasize the definite article "the," for as here used it signifies that there is only one way. In the fourteenth chapter of John, Jesus speaks of himself thus: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man Cometh unto the Father, but by me." The fact that Jesus was the way embraces the connate fact that he was the Wayshower. Had he not been the way he could not have been the Wayshower, for he must have known the way before he could show it to others. He did know the way, and therefore he was not a speculative nor a theoretical but a practical Wayshower.
It was this knowledge, no doubt, which enabled Jesus to make the startling declaration above quoted: "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Had he been less than the way he could not truthfully have made such a statement. One not sent of God, or divinely authorized, who should make so astonishing an assertion of power, might justly be regarded as an impostor, and had not Jesus been able to prove his words by his deeds he might have been so regarded. In claiming that no one could come to the Father but by him, he was taking upon himself an exclusive prerogative. It is not strange, then, that he pronounced all who had gone before him to have been thieves and robbers. A tremendous assumption; yet before he left the world he proved the truth of it, and hence his right to say it.
