THE record of Jesus' earth-life portrays his unalterable, inviolate unity with God, and nothing short of his understanding of this spiritual unity could have enabled him to express at all times and under all circumstances the power of the divine nature in the overcoming of every mode and form of evil.
When Jesus said to his disciples, "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works," he revealed the secret of the success of his entire life-work. Because men have not understood the full import of Jesus' work as the Way-shower to all mankind, they have failed to see that in these words of his there is the assurance to all men of such a unity with the Father as shall insure Jesus' own promise to them; for did he not declare, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father"? At another time he said, "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God."
It was not until Christian Science was revealed that men were awakened to the glorious right of claiming for themselves the same Father Jesus acknowledged; and it is through this same revelation that they are learning that to possess the understanding of man's sonship with God must result in works similar to those Jesus performed. To be sure, Christians for nearly two thousand years have been taught to pray, "Our Father which art in heaven;" but how little they have realized all that these words imply either of divine relationship or of individual power!
