At a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, a woman told of her healing. Her sister had been healed years before of goiter by her own faithful study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The speaker said that in the years following her sister's healing she, with other members of her family, had persecuted the sister with bitter intolerance and hatred of what they thought Christian Science to be. She herself was finally taken ill with a serious malady. One evening, after months of trying everything that materia medica could offer, she found herself facing a sleepless night, after several such nights had occurred. In her desperation she thought of her sister's healing, and decided to turn to Christian Science for help. She asked her husband to call the sister to learn how to obtain such help. Her husband secured the services of a practitioner. The woman awakened in the morning after the first refreshing, natural sleep in many weeks, entirely healed.
Was not this healing evidence of what may come to any individual when he turns from persecution of the Christ-idea to a recognition that the ever-present Christ is the truth of being—the truth that heals? The crucifixion gives place to a resurrection—the individual is in the path of ascension. He has caught his first glimpse of his divine selfhood, which it is the office of the Christ to present. He learns that his true being or selfhood is his spiritual selfhood, his Christhood, his divinity. He sees that his mortal selfhood is an illusion, a false concept of man, which his vision of the Christ has begun to dispel.
The Christ comes to expose this illusion by establishing the fact of the divine nature, the divine health, the divine wholeness, as being all that really is. The Christ manifests, shows forth, images forth, the real, divine man. We never hesitate to say man is the divine idea of God, and we know this man is in reality the only man. Then why should we hesitate to speak of the divine man when we mean the image and likeness, the expression, of God? To know ourselves as divine is to express the highest sense of humility, as when Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." Jesus knew his divinity to be what was true about him, what was real about him. He was so clearly conscious of this reality that he was not conscious of any other real selfhood. He thus made nothing of material so-called selfhood in declaring his oneness with God; and he recognized God as All. His Life was the Life which is God; his intelligence the Mind which is God.
