One who reads in the Scriptures that holy discourse of Christ Jesus contained in the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Matthew's Gospel, called the Sermon on the Mount, recognizes that this sermon is an appeal to the reader to bring about a complete change of his own human nature.
Jesus of Nazareth had but three years of active ministry. How small a period, yet how great an epoch! He lived a life replete with spiritual power. His revelation was a divine influx, changing the course of the world thought. He lifted the standard of moral and spiritual culture as high as perfection itself. His teaching was divinely inspired. It was the demand of divine Principle, of infinite Love, for spiritual activity in thought and purpose. It called for the direct opposite of human nature—even the divine nature expressed by man as the likeness and image of God.
Christian Science makes this Christly demand upon its follower. And in his effort to follow Christ, the student of Christian Science is illumined, heartened, and empowered by the divine revelation received, lived, and taught by Mary Baker Eddy. From this he learns that good derived from God is the only real power; that evil, therefore, has of itself no inherent ability to resist good; that this fact followed to its logical conclusion strips the errors calling themselves his human nature, of any supposed power to maintain themselves against the understanding and demonstration of spiritual perfection.
