One of the most notable features in the modern world is the great rapidity of change. Those with recollections extending into the last century can recall changes in modes of living, means of transportation, and forms of government which seem quite incredible in retrospect. But in this welter of instability the understanding of the true nature of God and His universe, including man, as revealed in Christian Science, stands changeless, constant, consistent, eternal in its application. It is as up to the minute today as on the day when Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy was first published in 1875
Christian Science reiterates the way of life taught and practiced by Christ Jesus. The Master's living was the expression of scientific thinking. It had a sure foundation, proceeding logically from the standpoint summed up in his own words (John 10: 30), "I and my Father are one," and (John 5: 19), "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do." The Master's way is changeless, unaffected by the passage of time, differing locations, and all the variant circumstances suggested by mortal mind.
Jesus' healing works were the outcome of his understanding of God's infinite allness, goodness, and perfection and the unchanging reflection of these qualities by man, His image and likeness. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."
