As a student of Christian Science listened to the Sunday service in a Christian Science church, the following words from the solo greatly impressed her: "Accept him to-day as your Saviour, this Stranger of Galilee."
This "Stranger of Galilee," Christ Jesus, won the title of Saviour because he showed the way out of materiality and mapped out the path that leads to everlasting life. His mission was not to destroy, but to fulfill God's law. He showed that the way of salvation is open to all who believe on and follow him.
On page 582 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find an illuminating definition of "believing," in part as follows: "Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth." To believe, then, is to understand the great truths that Jesus set forth, namely, that God, good, is the only power, and that man made in God's own likeness is sustained, maintained, and governed by God alone.
