"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me" (John 15:4). The statements of our Master are irrefutable; his words and works were inseparable. He never theorized; he demonstrated what he taught. He proved man's at-one-ment with God, Life, good, and showed in his own experience that this inseparability from Life makes man deathless. Christ Jesus' inseparability from Love made him fearless; his inseparability from Truth gave him untold power. No one can afford to permit the belief of separation from good if he would prove his perfection as a child of God.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has declared (p. 167:) "There is but one way—namely, God and His idea—which leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way. On this fundamental point, timid conservatism is absolutely inadmissible. Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."
The so-called line of least resistance to evil, while pursued by many, is actually the most difficult way. Christian Scientists place radical reliance on God, Spirit. That is why, in emergencies, the alert and wise Christian Scientist turns unreservedly to the Word of God, the Christ, for release from the mesmeric mental suggestions of bewilderment, confusion, and destruction that may seem to crowd upon his thought. At almost any Wednesday evening testimony meeting in Christian Science churches, one may hear of quick and complete healings from results of accident, burns, falls, of instant relief from acute pain, and of other cures, because those who are testifying, or those upon whom they have called for help, have relied radically on God and His Christ in their need.
