Referring to the primary mission of Christian Science, both now and in the time of Jesus, Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 150): "Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world." These words are profoundly important to the student of Christian Science, for through them he begins to see the compelling, evangelical nature of Mrs. Eddy's discovery.
He sees that the divine Principle demonstrated in Jesus' time by the overcoming of sin, disease, and death is today being demonstrated by Christian Science in the overcoming of the same triad. Jesus demonstrated to the receptive ones of his day the true nature of God as infinite good, and today Christian Science is bringing to a needy world the same gospel, promising salvation from all evil. That it is the same gospel is attested by the sick who are healed, by the sinful who are reformed, and by those whose thought has been resurrected from a conviction of the inevitability and reality of death to the recognition of Life as God, infinite and eternal.
If the teaching of Christian Science were utilized only to destroy sickness, the grander part of its purpose would be overlooked. This purpose is the uncovering and destruction of all mental error, which produces the ills of mankind. This error may be likened to an iceberg. Sin, disease, and death are only the visible evidence of the great mass of erroneous thought that claims to lie concealed in mortal consciousness. Basically, this error is the denial of the allness of Spirit, God, and of the spirituality of His creation, man and the universe.
