Ours is such a full salvation,
All must be well.
These lines from a hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 350) contain an important promise. "What is salvation," one may ask, "and how is it understood in Christian Science?" A beautiful and satisfying definition is given by Mary Baker Eddy in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.593): "Salvation. Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed." Surely a definition containing such clear and fundamental statements of Christian Science must be of great significance.
We are promised a full salvation; but what are the demands? In order to be saved from sin and sickness we must understand and demonstrate the supremacy of God, of Life, Truth, and Love. And how are sin, sickness, and death destroyed? By the very fact of the supremacy, omnipotence and omnipresence of Life, Truth, and Love understood and actively demonstrated in our experience. Sickness or death cannot be present when Life is understood as supreme, omnipresent. Sin cannot exist where Truth and Love are understood as omnipresent and omnipotent. In one translation of the New Testament "salvation" has been rendered as "health," and we can see how the understanding of God imparted by Christian Science reveals the real man, for man is God's image and likeness. Man, reflecting Life, Truth, and Love, must express perfect health, integrity, and purity, for God is reflected in harmonious life, immutable truth, and sinless joy; and the understanding of this fact demonstrates health in human experience.
