ON page 462 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy states that any student who adheres to the rules of Christian Science and is possessed of the spirit of Christ can demonstrate this Science. Her words are: "Some individuals assimilate truth more readily than others, but any student, who adheres to the divine rules of Christian Science and imbibes the spirit of Christ, can demonstrate Christian Science, cast out error, heal the sick, and add continually to his store of spiritual understanding, potency, enlightenment, and success." Inspiring words they are; but whoever reads them must acknowledge that he has his part to play if he would be successful in the demonstration of Christian Science: obedience must be given by him to divine law, and Christliness must characterize his life.
The greatest demonstrator of divine Science who ever lived on earth was Christ Jesus, he whose birth Christians remember with joy at Christmas time. And if we consider Jesus' life we find standing out, preeminently, obedience and goodness. He was constantly affirming his unity with God, the Father; constantly realizing his eternal relationship with Spirit, Mind. It was his clear understanding of God's omnipotence and of his entire dependence on God as the source of all good, that inspired him to rise to the spiritual heights to which he attained, and made him the master Scientist. "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe," writes our Leader (Science and Health, p. 313); and she continues at the end of the paragraph in which these words occur, "Our Master gained the solution of being, demonstrating the existence of but one Mind without a second or equal."
It is impossible to think of Jesus as acting contrary to divine law or as failing to show forth the Christ spirit. His faith in God was as steadfast as his understanding of God; his love for God never varied; his purity was proportionate to his spirituality; his self-abnegation measured his knowledge of his real spiritual selfhood. Faith, love, purity, and self-abnegation ruled his life; and these, with other spiritual qualities, gave him the mastery over material sense, the victory over sin, disease, and death. One of the finest traits in the Saviour's career was his faithfulness to moral and spiritual law. Indeed, it was this faithfulness more than anything else that made him the "most scientific man that ever trod the globe," the man who more than any other proved the power of Spirit to set at naught the so-called laws of matter.
