Every absolute truth which is understood, every spiritual idea which is cherished, every thought of divine Love which is entertained, must have its correlative manifestation to the human senses as an improved belief or as a healing wrought by the revelation of the Word, known today as divine Science. In a message to the members of the Christian Science church in Concord, New Hampshire, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, included this arresting statement: "Christian Science healing is 'the Spirit and the bride,'—the Word and the wedding of this Word to all human thought and action,—that says: Come, and I will give thee rest, peace, health, holiness" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 153).
According to one Bible commentator the word "Logos," or the "Word," means (1) "a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought; . . . the collective 'thought' of God; ... the utterance or expression of the Person, and 'thought' of Deity." As understood in Christian Science, the Logos or Word is God and His manifestation, the Christ, revealed—divine Principle and its idea, divine Mind with its omniscience, divine Life with its omnipotence, Spirit with its omnipresence.
The Bible records throughout "the wedding of this Word to all human thought and action." Although the Word, or Christ, is impersonal, it is nevertheless individual. In describing this impersonality and individuality, Mrs. Eddy first quotes from the Gospel of John, "'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God' (St. John)." And then she adds, "This great truth of God's impersonality and individuality and of man in His image and likeness, individual, but not personal, is the foundation of Christian Science" (Miscellany, p. 117).
The Word was impersonally, but individually, wedded to the human thought and action of Abraham when it revealed to him the true idea of God and led him out of Ur of the Chaldees, out of the belief of gods many, out of the beliefs of astrology, occultism, necromancy, and magic, into the consciousness of the one God, the one Spirit. It was the impersonal, but individual, wedding of the wisdom and love of the Word to Abraham's thought and action which led him to separate from Lot and still maintain love in his heart for Lot. It was the Word, or divine Mind, uttering itself to Moses individually which gave to him the law, conjoining it through the Commandments to the human expression of that law. It was the individual and impersonal appearing of the Word through Moses' leadership, which was applied to the progressive activities of the Israelites and led them out of the blackness and idolatry of Egypt.
It is the impersonal and individual leadership of Mrs. Eddy, given through her discovery Christian Science and presented to us in her written works, which is leading nations out of the carnal mind's materialism and will expose and destroy its hidden hypnotic influence and claim to power.
The wedding of the Word to all human thought and action calls for praying without ceasing. It requires that we hold every thought up to the perfection of God and His idea, the Christ, Truth. It demands that we prove through every act that the wisdom of Mind, the love of Love, the Christ Science of Principle, is governing us. When a natural scientist is working out a problem in hydraulics, he turns to what he calls the principle of hydraulics, and this so-called principle is made manifest to him through concepts that are practical, provable, and usable. He then acts in obedience to these concepts and is successful. The Christ, through Christian Science, reveals, or gives us, the true concept, or idea, of God and man, which is applicable, demonstrable, and practical here and now. The understanding of and obedience to this true concept, idea, or the Word, weds it to thought and action, thus giving a proper solution to all human problems.
If one wanted to find the cubic feet in a room, he would multiply the length by the width by the height of the room. If one were given a hypothetical problem in mathematics which required that the number of cubic feet in an imaginary room be proven, the same mathematical rules would be used as are used in obtaining the cubic feet of an actual room. In the same manner, suppositional problems are resolved by the application of the scientific law, the Logos or Word, to all human affairs.
The perfect example of the wedding of the Word to all human thought and action is, of course, the life of Christ Jesus. The wisdom of the Word was wedded to his conversation, to his preaching, and to the answers given to his enemies. It was also wedded to his rebukes and to his counsel. Throughout Jesus' glorious career until his ascension, the Christ appeared individually, wedding God's law of love to his every word and deed. His sinless humanhood was thereby attained, and it is the way the sinless humanhood of each and of all is attained.
The Word uttered itself individually through the inspiration of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, giving practical counsel, tender guidance, effective prayer, describing the way for human beings to attain heavenly harmony and revealing the blessings of Christ made manifest in the flesh or to mortals. Jesus proved in his short career that the utilization of the Word, or the true idea of God and man, can heal mankind of all their distresses, sicknesses, sins, ignorance, and of their belief in death. The Truth, or Christ, he expressed spiritualizes humanity.
In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy states: "This spiritual idea, or Christ, entered into the minutiae of the life of the personal Jesus. It made him an honest man, a good carpenter, and a good man, before it could make him the glorified" (p. 166). The Word, or the life of Life, was wedded to the thought and action of Jesus when he overcame death, thus proving divine Love to be supreme over the hatred, malice, and murderous thoughts of those who would have destroyed him. He was the individual perfect example of the wedding of the Word to all human thought and action, and Christian Science shows us how to follow that example.
In the midst of unhappy human conditions, Jesus was so conscious of the joy of Truth that with the inspiration of divine Love he could say to his followers, "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full" (John 15:11). This joy bestowed by the Christ, Truth, is an absolute, or spiritual, quality which no mortal and no material condition can hide, impair, or destroy, and this joy is applicable to the healing of human woes and sorrows.
Man's glorious selfhood, or nature, as the likeness of God, is daily becoming more apparent to humanity through Christian Science healing, which is the wedding of the Word to all human thought and action. This will continue until sinless humanhood in its individual and universal nature has appeared and "the earth [is] filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Hab. 2:14).
