Who would not have a more abundant sense of life? Who would not exchange the restless anxiety of so-called human life for the uninterrupted calm of the Life which is God?
Meanings of the word have are to know; to understand; to keep or cherish in mind. Thus the words "he that hath the Son" could mean "he that knoweth the Son." We must realize man's true individuality in the Son, the Christ, as the pure reflection of infinite Mind, eternal Life, God. Herein lies the secret of man's dominion over all the earth. Demonstrating true sonship, one reflects the power of Christ, Truth, over all the false beliefs of so-called mortal mind, with its multitudinous problems of famine, war, pestilence, death, and so on. What a discovery is this—that salvation from all evil has always been at hand and is now set forth as a demonstrable Science which all may prove for themselves. We must remember "that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life" (I John 5:11,12).
To the discouraged invalid this Science says: "Drop your false sense of man as inhabiting a material body, subject to disease, disaster, and ultimate disintegration and recognize the Son, the ever-present Christ. Welcome the fact that man, as the image and likeness of God, can only be conscious of pure, spiritual, Godlike concepts." The result will probably be startling, because evil, negative thoughts simply cannot abide in the presence of radiant reality, and that is what divine ideas express.
