The pattern for triumphant living was set by Jesus, who not only understood but proved that Life is God, divine and eternal. His purely spiritual perception enabled him to see perfection in all God's creation. This perception was the operation of the Christ, Truth, which Jesus embodied. In all his marvelous works for the children of men, he demonstrated the spirit of Life, Truth, and Love. Referring to Christ, Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). He proved his unity with God. The divine love and wisdom with which he was so abundantly endowed empowered him to lay hold on Life, to speak with authority and persuasion of the facts of being, and to lead mankind along the narrow way to triumphant living. His is the perfect example of victory through Christ, the victory of godliness, spiritual courage, and irresistible persistence in the truth.
These Christly qualities of thought were conspicuous in Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Undaunted and unafraid, she pressed on, confident that there was a divinely practical cure for the sins and sufferings of mankind. Many were her trials and disappointments, but great were her hard-won victories. Prayerfully, persistently, courageously, she advanced step by step from one triumph to another. Her prayer of un-selfed love was abundantly rewarded, as it always is.
Through Christ, through the spirit of Love which filled her heart, the answer came. Truth appeared to her expectant thought, the same transforming Truth which Jesus had preached and practiced centuries before. Christian Science, revealed by God to Mrs. Eddy, brought healing on its wings. Our Leader's clear recognition of the Christ as "the way, the truth, and the life" enabled her to write "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." This textbook was then, and ever will be, the key to triumphant living.
