The things that Mary Baker Eddy did as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the things she has said in her published writings, convince the earnest student that she loved all humanity. They convince him that she was vitally interested in presenting to mankind not only the absolute truth regarding Spirit, God, as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, and man as His perfect image and likeness, but also the method of applying this truth in human experience to meet the present need of healing and regeneration.
Knowing that human experience is the objectification of human thought, Mrs. Eddy devoted herself unceasingly to the task of revealing the Christ, the true idea of God, to humanity, confident that the Christ, when accepted into human consciousness, would annul the falsities termed sin, sickness, and death.
Mrs. Eddy defines "Christ" thus (Science and Health, p. 583): "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." It is this coming of Christ to humanity that makes Christian Science our practical help and healer today. Great growth will come to us as we learn more of the Christ and meet the human need, refusing to give mankind, asking for bread, useless stones, or merely abstract theories—theories that do not meet the need of mankind for spiritual evangelization, but hide the healing Christ in a maze of theoretical material intellectuality.
