What a glorious blessing Mary Baker Eddy has brought to humanity in her revelation of the ever-present, incorporeal Christ! "Christ," she writes, "is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332).
This is not a far-off personal savior or mediator, but a "divine message" of Life, Truth, and Love—of man's unity with his Father-Mother God, whose wisdom, power, and love are unlimited, and here and now available to meet the needs of His children.
With what springtide freshness Isaiah prophetically pictures the mission of the Christ when he says: "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; ... he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; ... to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord."
