THERE was, perhaps, nothing which Jesus affirmed more frequently than that men would be healed in the measure of the faith realized. Again and again, he declared of those who were delivered from direst diseases that such healing came because of faith. He said to his disciples, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
When Christian Science was revealed to Mrs. Eddy, she found it reiterating the same insistent necessity of exercising faith. All through her writings there runs the same golden thread of the need of faith which illumined and made practical the teachings of Jesus, those teachings which promised all fullness of successful fruition to those who had faith in God.
With Christian Scientists this constant demand for faith is often something all too lightly passed over. We are too prone to believe we can jump to spiritual understanding without taking the necessary footsteps to reach the exalted spiritual altitude implied in that divine knowing to which the term "understanding" fully belongs. Because we gain quickly a certain intellectual grasp of the letter of Christian Science, we are tempted to call this spiritual understanding. Using this letter, even though with commendable zeal, we may find our efforts failing to bring the healing we so long to have manifested. Then the question and wonder come! Where is the lack in the work we have so desired to have effective? Would not Jesus ask of us at such times, Where is your faith?
