The world's discoverers have been the world's benefactors because their work has enabled mankind to abandon limited for less limited points of view. But Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science transcends in importance all other discoveries, because it reveals the spiritual, hence indestructible and eternal, nature of the universe including man, and shows how spiritual facts understood can be employed to solve human problems.
In the ancient Scriptures are to be found a number of references indicating the spiritual or perfect nature of man, who, because he is God's likeness, must be indestructible and eternal. In the first chapter of Genesis, for example, we find the following brief allusion to the real and therefore the only man: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." Abram received the following message from God (Gen. 17:1): "Walk before me, and be thou perfect." And much later, Christ Jesus attested to the perfect and indestructible nature of God's man in his command (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
This command, "Be ye therefore perfect," is still challenging Christian believers, who for the most part look upon it as visionary or at least as something impossible of attainment save in an uncertain, far-off heaven. However, would any wise and loving teacher require of his pupils that which he knows to be impossible for them to accomplish? We should therefore prayerfully consider what it is that our Way-shower expected of his true followers.
