"What you need is a man with you." This remark was made to a woman whom a few friends were seeing off on a journey to another country about three thousand miles away. Immediately came the reply, "I have man with me." Later, on the plane, thought reverted to this statement made with such surety and confidence, and she asked herself exactly what she had meant by her reply. Naturally, her thought turned with gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who had been given the revelation of the truths of God and man, and who has given to the world today through her life and writings the ability to know man as God creates him, an idea dwelling always in the one divine Mind, ever spiritual, perfect, and complete, an individualized expression of Life, Truth, and Love.
When Christian Science heals us of some physical condition which has defied materia medica for years, the tenor of our thought is changed, and a reaching out to God for that spiritual understanding which reveals His allness and man's oneness with all that is good takes first place in our lives. Though we may have received an instantaneous healing of some form of sickness and are enjoying abundant health, this does not mean that we immediately prove our wholeness and completeness. No, "for precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little" (Isa. 28:10).
Throughout the writings of Mrs. Eddy the perfection of God and man is acknowledged. We are being taught to know God, to know man as His idea, but this knowing has to be proved individually. Mrs. Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 242): "You can never demonstrate spirituality until you declare yourself to be immortal and understand that you are so. Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration."
