In summing up that which had been accomplished by the greatest spiritual reformer the world had ever known, Paul wrote to the Ephesians: "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one."
Like every pioneer and religious leader who would transform the thoughts of mankind, Christ Jesus met with terrific opposition and bitter enmity from established authority, and from those who desired to preserve it. He came to reform the thoughts of the people in their attitude towards God and towards themselves. He came to teach them that reform lay not merely in obeying and following someone who knew more than they did, but in reforming their own thoughts and lives. He showed them that in this way, as the result of faith and righteousness, not only the sinner would be reformed, but the sick, the blind, the deaf, the crippled, and the paralyzed would be physically re-formed and made whole.
The reformation which Christ Jesus demanded, can be summed up in the words of Mary Baker Eddy on page 11 of "Unity of Good," "He demanded a change of consciousness and evidence, and effected this change through the higher laws of God." Here, in a brief sentence, we may survey the command, the result, and the method of reformation which is effected by the Christ, Truth, coming to human thought. By these spiritual means do men lay hold of that which teaches them how everything that needs reformation in thought and action can be purified and uplifted through the redemptive law of God, operating always in behalf of those who put themselves under its beneficent care.
