It is related in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel that the disciples of Jesus, no doubt studying the great Teacher's method of preaching, asked him why he spoke to them in parables. His reply (Matt. 13:11), "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given," must surely have raised them to a higher pinnacle of spiritual joy. In other words, that which was still mysterious to the uninitiated thought of the Jews had, through study, practice, and their receptivity to the teachings of Christ Jesus, become in some measure divinely natural to the disciples.
Later Jesus described as his disciples those who continued in his word, who accepted and obeyed his teaching; and he promised (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Is there any difference in the qualification for discipleship today from that given by the Master: "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed"? Christian Science has come in this age as the Comforter which Jesus promised would teach us all things, setting forth the Principle and rules of primitive Christianity as he taught and demonstrated it. Through the unselfed work and spiritual discernment of Mary Baker Eddy, today Christian Science presents the Christ, the irrefutable Truth, which the master Christian presented over nineteen hundred years ago. And each Christian Scientist has the opportunity to assimilate and practice successfully the precepts Jesus taught. The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, unlocks the Bible and gives to every sincere student or disciple the privilege of knowing the truth of man's oneness, or unity, with God and his dominion over all the earth.
This knowledge and dominion need not be considered as a mere future possibility. It is a present consequence of modern discipleship that the truth is available and knowable every moment. The student of Christian Science who realizes and claims his right and his spiritual ability to know the truth has found God. He is no longer in the condition in which Job believed himself to be when he declared that if he only knew where to find God he would fill his mouth "with arguments" (Job 23:4). But if we actually know the truth regarding someone or something, argument is not necessary, as Job found, for he declared that God "is in one mind, and who can turn him?"
