Christian Science, through its healing ministrations, is bestowing good on the whole human race. Particular individuals may be the primary beneficiaries, but the good conferred is not confined to these alone. Good, in itself, is limitless in its application, and the results are immeasurable. Every Christian Science service, every testimony to the healing power of God, every simple statement of Truth, not only directly benefits the persons who hear it and are receptive to the good expressed, but, in some degree, all those with whom these individuals come in touch, and, progressively, the entire community and the whole world. Moreover, the beneficent results of our entertaining uplifting, healing thoughts, of our continually dwelling on man as the perfect likeness of perfect God. cannot fail to be manifested, even if these effects are not at once perceptible.
In the fourth chapter of Mark's Gospel it is recorded that one evening, after preaching to the multitude by the shore of the Galilean sea, Jesus and his disciples stepped into a ship to pass to the other side. It was probably a small fishing boat of the type still common on this inland sea. "And there were also with him," runs the narrative, "other little ships." In these, probably, were other followers of the Master, eager to hear more of the truth he had been teaching.
Soon there arose one of those sudden and violent storms common to this body of water. The waves were so high that they beat into the ship which bore Jesus and his disciples, and threatened to swamp it. The Master was asleep in the after part of the vessel. Frantic with fear, the disciples awoke him with an appeal for help: "Master, carest thou not that we perish?" "Peace, be still," was his rebuke to the stormy elements, and "a great calm" ensued.
