Christ Jesus taught and preached for three years only; yet in this brief period he was able to teach the everlasting unity of God and man and to demonstrate this fact in the healing of sin and disease. His words and works have been and will continue to be emulated throughout the centuries by all his enlightened and faithful followers. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 565): "The impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our Master; but 'of his kingdom there shall be no end,' for Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all nations and peoples —imperatively, absolutely, finally—with divine Science."
Every alert student of Christian Science has the opportunity to demonstrate the spiritual facts which Christian Science reveals and thereby to realize his immunity from sin, disease, and death. Whether he is young or old, as the world measures age, he has the high goal always before him, namely, to heal as Jesus healed. In order that he may draw ever nearer to the spiritual height which Christ Jesus attained, he makes an intensive study of the method which the master Metaphysician used in his healing works, as presented in the New Testament and elucidated in Science and Health.
From these inspired textbooks the student learns that Christ Jesus was so imbued with the knowledge of God's allness and evil's nothingness that he eschewed all material beliefs about himself and others. He knew, with the positiveness born of countless demonstrations in the healing of sin and disease, that man, who is the eternal idea of God, is one with the Father, and that he has never been born materially and can never die. In his spiritual perception of the real man's eternal, harmonious being, Jesus summarily dismissed sin, sickness, and death as the passing illusions or dreams of false material sense.
