EVERY student of Christian Science loves the revelation of Science. But sometimes the argument presents itself that he does not love the organization. Such a student would tell you that decidedly he is a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, he believes implicitly in her teachings, and in a measure he demonstrates them. But is he really a follower? Can one follow by going halfway, or possibly by going all the way for a time and then branching off on a tangent of one's own? No.
Before the disciples could understand the purport of the Master's mission, they had to understand the Master. Hence the tremendous import of Peter's stirring pronouncement, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt. 16:16). This recognition of the Christ, of the divinity of Jesus' mission, was the rock upon which the primitive Christian church was founded. To understand the Christian Science movement we must understand its Discoverer and Founder. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she states (p. 560), "Again, without a correct sense of its highest visible idea, we can never understand the divine Principle."
When Mrs. Eddy rose up healed from what the physicians had pronounced would be her deathbed, she did not know that the Master's promise was at the point of fulfillment (John 14:16): "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever."
