With loving eagerness does the student of Christian Science pore over the prayers of the master Christian, Christ Jesus, especially those recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John, where he says: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: ... And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one."
Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, blazed the path his followers must tread to reach the height which he attained. His recorded prayers aid one in glimpsing the intimate closeness he maintained with his Father, and they are inspirational as well as comforting. In these prayers Jesus referred to his spiritual identity, and his earnest desire was that his disciples should realize that true selfhood is inseparable from God, and that this must be proved in life practice.
Jesus began in early boyhood to demonstrate his unity with God when he said that he must be about his Father's business, and on up into manhood he proved it increasingly. He healed all manner of disease and raised others and himself from death through the supremacy of the spiritual over the material. He told his disciples that they were to do the works which he did, and even greater. The proof of true discipleship is the healing work. He said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."
