"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it" (Rev. 2:17). So wrote St. John in his revelation of things divinely real. Surely, this new name is representative of something more than the name of a human person. In the Scriptures names often imply natures, and they frequently become indicative of that state of consciousness which is animate and radiant with the healing nature of the spiritual idea. How natural, then, that when characters of Bible times reached spiritual altitudes in their natures, they did wonderful works in Christ's name.
Today such works are again being done through Christian Science, which is triumphing over the materiality of our age. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes (p.188), "When it is learned that spiritual sense and not the material senses convey all impressions to man, man will naturally seek the Science of his spiritual nature, and finding it, be God-endowed for discipleship."
Through this discipleship Christian Science practice is crowned with the power and royal authority of Christlike meekness and tenderness, intelligence and transcendent love. But what may be some of the impressions conveyed to men by spiritual sense? Surely they are of holy Love and perfect Life, which impart freedom and heavenly bliss. Such impressions make for sanctified, transparent consciousness, obedient to the workings of divine law and subordinated to the Science of man's nature. Here, not even belief in personal goodness can interfere with man's reflection of Truth. No wonder that with wise and Christian zeal the consecrated practitioner of Christian Science seeks to eat of the manna of Truth and to overcome whatever in belief lies between him and his singleness of purpose to work in the realm of God-endowed discipleship.
