EVERY true Christian has an international outlook by reason of the international nature of Christianity. He is increasingly aware that good is universal, infinite, confined to no country or race; and this good he understands to be God, the one Mind or intelligence, the only Father and Mother, who has impartially endowed all His children with the inalienable rights of freedom and equality.
God imparts His goodness to human consciousness through the Christ. The "Christ," as Christian Science reveals through its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness" (p. 332). Jesus, who understood and expressed the Christ more than anyone else, was enabled by it to heal the sick and the sinful and show man to be healthy, loving, just, and pure.
To the Christ, "there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." The efficacy of the Christ to overcome racial animosity and strife may be seen in Jesus' dealings with the Samaritans. The latter, we are told, were originally Assyrians, idolaters, and although living in the midst of Jewish territory they accepted Judaism only in part. For these reasons the Jews considered themselves superior to them, an attitude which was so resented by the Samaritans that a feud developed between the two peoples. Hence it was not surprising that when Jesus was journeying one day through Samaria and asked drink of a woman at Jacob's well, she should reply in astonishment, "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans."
