WITHOUT a doubt Christ Jesus was the most successful Christianly scientific practitioner the world has ever known. Since the Master told his disciples that it was possible for them to follow his example as a healer, a demonstrator of spiritual law and its supremacy over matter, it will be helpful for us to ponder some of the reasons for his success and strive to apply them in our own lives.
One great and unique asset which Jesus had was of course the spiritual nature of his birth, which was free from material laws and sensuality. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 29, 30), "Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self-conscious communion with God." To Mary was revealed the truth that God alone is the Father and Life of man. Jesus was undoubtedly brought up to know this truth. We find him telling his followers (Matt. 23:9), "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
A Christian Science practitioner today finds the knowledge that the real man is the son of God alone of great value in healing disease supposedly due to heredity. With Life, Truth, and Love as his Father, the real man can have no discordant inheritance. Knowing this, Jesus healed the man blind from his birth and answered his disciples' query as to the cause for this handicap in the words (John 9:3), "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." In that saying Jesus recognized God as the only parent, and' man as His sinless offspring, created to manifest the works of God.
