The real man is the child of God, the perfect idea of divine Mind, reflecting divine Love. Every human being, therefore, should love God and desire spiritual nutriment and spiritual inspiration. This can be said no matter to what race he belongs, what his environment is, or what are his religious beliefs. The mask of false personality, paganistic and materialistic teachings, false conceptions of the nature of God and man may seem to obstruct the entrance of spiritual light into the consciousness of men, but it is only a seeming; spiritual man alone is real; and sooner or later when rightly received, the Christ, Truth, will leaven the darkened consciousness and illumine it with the healing power of spiritual understanding.
Therefore, when presenting Christian Science to the inquiring thought, whether that thought has previously been paganistic or intellectually steeped in human philosophy and scholastic theology, whether that of Jew or Gentile, the Christian Scientist needs to employ his God-bestowed wisdom so to present the truth to the recipient that its divine nature will be evident. Our beloved Master taught his disciples to preach the gospel, but he also warned them against presenting the truth to thought unprepared to receive it. "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet," he declared. Surely there is a right method of presenting the gospel so adroitly and so convincingly that the listening ear will grasp the message and the responsive heart declare, "My Lord and my God," as did the doubting Thomas of old.
A study of the Biblical methods of presenting the healing gospel of Truth to human thought is indeed instructive. Note how Christ Jesus presented the Christ to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The Master had been betrayed; the arrest, the trial, the fleeing of the disciples, the crucifixion, the resurrection, had all taken place. The two disciples, trudging the road to Emmaus, were doubtless disturbed, being assailed with doubts and questionings. Then the risen Master came and walked with them; and we are told in the Gospel of Luke that "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." What then happened? "And their eyes were opened, and they knew him." Then the physical Jesus "vanished out of their sight."
