It was natural for Jesus, with his marvelous spiritual insight and inherent sense of divine justice, to perceive the holy purpose of restoration, and to prove it for the multitudes who came to him for healing and deliverance. Indeed, his entire career was a living proof that God's promises are perpetual and ever at hand to bring a renewal of health, holiness, and harmony. Let us consider the case of the man with the withered hand whom Jesus healed instantaneously; we read that "it was restored whole, like as the other" (Matt. 12:13). Then there was Mary Magdalene, "out of whom went seven devils" (Luke 8:2), whose healing was so complete that she merited the wonderful privilege of being the first one to behold the risen Saviour. Among the many other outstanding incidents there was the awakening of the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue from the dead, and her quick restoration to life, strength, and activity (Matt. 9:23-25). The human mind has regarded these acts as miraculous; but to the spiritually enlightened thought they are the natural result of the practical utilization of the divine power to heal, regenerate, and restore mankind.
In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 185) Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved Leader, refers to Paul's statement, "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." And she says (p. 186), "As the apostle proceeds in this line of thought, he undoubtedly refers to the last Adam represented by the Messias, whose demonstration of God restored to mortals the lost sense of man's perfection, even the sense of the real man in God's likeness, who restored this sense by the spiritual regeneration of both mind and body,— casting out evils, healing the sick, and raising the dead." And in the same paragraph she concludes: "He established health and harmony, the perfection of mind and body, as the reality of man; while discord, as seen in disease and death, was to him the opposite of man, hence the unreality; even as in Science a chord is manifestly the reality of music, and discord the unreality. This rule of harmony must be accepted as true relative to man."
Since all that is divinely real is eternally changeless, harmonious, and intact, what we term "restoration" must be a human belief of process. In Science, God's work is forever perfect and complete; hence there could be no possible place or purpose for the human process of improvement, recovery, correction, or reformation. This is why the practice of Christian Science is based upon absolute spiritual verities; it involves the denial and destruction of the spurious claims of error, and demands clear and positive affirmations of truth and its evidence.
