What a depth of tenderness, compassion, and love the words of Christ Jesus, "Come unto me," must have conveyed to the eager seekers who came to him for healing of sickness, sorrow, or lack! What confidence in the healing power of the truth, which he knew and lived, lay behind his words! And what wonder and awe did these marvelous works of healing awake in the thought of those who witnessed them! They freed men from vexatious conditions resulting from disobedience to God's commands, as given to mankind through Moses and the prophets, and further revealed by Jesus. The Master warned some of those he healed to sin no more lest worse things should befall them. Does not this indicate the mental cause of human troubles, since, clearly, sin must be thought before it can be acted?
Christ Jesus tenderly urged, "Come unto me." Now what are we to understand by this "me"? Surely not the personal Jesus, or his call would be unanswerable today. Yet he said that his words should not pass away. He also said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." Jesus disclaimed any personal power to heal, but in every word and act he manifested the Christ, or Truth. He claimed and proved his dominion over all error, including sin, disease, and death, through his oneness with his Father, God. And he promised that his followers who believed on him should do likewise. Christian Science, therefore, interprets his call as meaning, Come unto the Christ, the idea of divine Principle, infinite Love, and prove the truth of spiritual reality, the allness of God, good, and the unreality, the nothingness, of all seeming opposites.
Now Christian Science, the law of infinite Love, is bringing redemption and healing to those earnestly striving to obey the teachings of the Master Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has made the way clear for all to understand the spiritual or Christianly scientific sense of the Scriptures, which she has set forth in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings. On page 171 of this book she writes, "Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of materiality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of divine Science the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free."
