IN the tenth chapter of John's Gospel we find this statement of Jesus: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." On another occasion he declared, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
It is evident from these statements that Jesus did not consider Life as material, physical, or limited, but as synonymous with God; that is, that God and Life are one, and to know God is to understand the eternality of being. Through his teachings and his works Jesus demonstrated for all mankind that the substance and intelligence of man are not material, but spiritual. Referring to the purpose of his life-work, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 26), "His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man."
To those engulfed in the belief that man's life is material, physical, mortal, subject to discord and death, Christian Science brings a message of hope, joy, and relief from the harassments of so-called material existence. It sets forth man in the image and likeness of God. as revealed in the first chapter of Genesis, and makes practical and demonstrable the teachings of the great Master, Christ Jesus. Through this understanding of the truth men are gaining freedom from the false claims of sickness, sin, disease, poverty, separation, and death, which have held mankind in bondage.
