HEALING in Christian Science is evidence of the coming of the Christ to human consciousness. It is the Christ that unveils the great fact of being that Life is God, Spirit, the infinite Mind conceiving man, its spiritual idea, in its own perfect likeness. Mary Baker Eddy defines the Christ on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."
One who has experienced healing in Christian Science has seen the proof of man's spirituality. The Christ's demand, "Leave all, and follow me!" is implicit in this proof, for the evidence of man's true nature as Spirit's likeness shows the unreality and valuelessness of all material aims and standards. Thus the ever-present Christ, Truth, demands our decision at every turn. Our choice whether to let Love rule or to admit the necessity for a little ruthlessness in business; whether silently to proclaim divine Mind as the source of all ideas or to yield to the temptation to exalt oneself by criticism of another's thoughts or efforts; whether to lift thought gratefully above all discordant circumstances or to indulge the so-called right to be annoyed on occasion; whether to seek and cherish the good in everyone we meet or to enjoy the pride of superiority over another; whether to give a little more time each day to the prayer of love for all mankind or to rest in the self-satisfied belief of being too busy—these decisions, rendered quickly and emphatically in behalf of spiritual good, give us the support of the Christ-power, which sustains all good effort.
In the nineteenth chapter of John's Gospel it is related that when Christ Jesus was brought before him Pilate paid heed to the demands of material sense, rejecting the Christ for Caesar. John's account indicates that Pilate knew Jesus to be innocent, that he had a certain sense of justice which made him desire to free Jesus, but that he yielded to the demands of the Jews when they cried out, "If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend."
