It is not uncommon to hear it remarked that Christian Scientists possess an extraordinary confidence in their religion. And the observation is justified, because no body of religionists have greater assurance than they in the doctrine which they have made their own. In the days before they knew of the teachings of Christian Science they were as other seekers after Truth, tossed about by doubts and misgivings from one theory to another, finding no stable resting place; but with the understanding of these teachings doubt fled, distrust vanished, and in their stead was established a great and abiding assurance, a wonderfully constant faith.
The Master had the same assurance, the same faith; but in even a more pronounced degree. If anyone will study his life as it is chronicled in the New Testament he will be convinced of this, and will likewise discover the secret for that assurance and that faith. Indeed, Jesus himself states it in the simplest yet most explicit language in the fifth and tenth chapters of John's Gospel when he says: "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me;" and, "I and my Father are one." The great Nazarene, our Way-shower, understood so clearly the perfect unity which existed between God and his real spiritual selfhood that he was able to drop the false sense of a selfhood apart from God, and to renounce the error of self-will, thus allowing the will of God, divine Mind, to manifest itself through him, thereby being empowered to do those marvelous healing works which characterized his ministry.
What Christ Jesus understood, Christian Science reveals to men today; and those who make this revelation their own—and in the degree that they do make it their own—are endowed with his assurance. Think a little more closely on the question! There is one God, infinite Spirit, or Mind. Man is the image, likeness, reflection, of God, divine Mind; and this relationship is continuous—it cannot possibly cease even for a moment. In other words, the unity which exists between God and His idea, man, is absolutely fixed, absolutely permanent. As soon as this is discerned, one becomes convinced of man's immortality, assured that man is perfectly protected, that he is subject only to the perfect law of unerring Mind.
