A STATEMENT of great significance occurs in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, when he proclaims to his followers, "Ye are the light of the world." Surely, no grander trust, no higher, holier charge, no sweeter mission, could ever have been bestowed on men than that—to shine forth, as God empowered them to do, "the light of the world"!
Although living in a material age, surrounded by the evidences of sin, sickness, and death, by all the varied problems of struggling humanity, and confronted everywhere by their beliefs in fear, hatred, vice,—the manifold shadows imposed by the darkness of ignorance,—yet Jesus so allied himself to God, so constantly dwelt "in the secret place of the most High," so detached himself from belief in the power and reality of evil, that he actually was enabled to see what finite sense cannot possibly comprehend or discern—man as the radiant expression of eternal Mind.
Jesus is the Saviour of mankind because he towered as a mountain peak above the mortal mists. His gaze being directed heavenward, above and beyond all earthly seeming, and unconfused by its persistent demands, he remained steadfastly exalted beyond all earth-dreams, hearing only "the voice of melody." Sustained and upheld by the angels, which Mrs. Eddy says on page 298 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are "pure thoughts from God," he was led on to higher realms and ever purer mental atmospheres, leaving on his course upward a never fading trail of light to mark the way out of darkness for those coming after.
