THE example which Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, gave and the promise which he gave that his followers should be able to follow that example have convinced Christians that their hope in the kingdom of God is heaven-born. That hope has often supplied strength to carry on against great odds. But until the Science which explained Jesus' words and works was revealed in the latter part of the nineteenth century through Mrs. Eddy, men in general sought the kingdom of God only in the future.
In the Christian Science textbook, our Leader tells us (pp. 40, 41), "The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us." And she adds in the same paragraph, "Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being."
Triumphs over sorrows and afflictions through which the right thinker is purified follow glimpses of the realm of the real, man's spiritual home. Experience shows that as we keep our thinking ever more steadfastly in the divine realm of harmony, we are increasingly able to exercise that immediate authority with which the Master could rebuke a fever or a tempest.
