TO Christian Scientists, Christ Jesus is the Way-shower. He had such spiritual understanding that his judgments were unerring in their praise or condemnation. The compassion, the kindliness, the brotherly love, the courage, the fearlessness of Jesus in meeting the human need wherever he found it are illustrated in the parables he used in order to stress important metaphysical points. Illumined by the light of divine Science, they bear witness to the intensity of interest with which the master Christian looked upon the world of his day.
But they reveal something else about him which is deeper and more important: they show, as we learn to do in Christian Science, that when he looked about him he saw not only the vivid human picture and its lessons, but the opportunity to reveal God and His attributes to the receptive thought.
Christ Jesus was the greatest teacher the world has ever known, and our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has interpreted his teachings in divine Science. That we have her works to turn to in order to enlighten a Bible text is something to be everlastingly grateful for. But our gratitude should not stop with us. Gratitude must be expressed in ministering to others, in finding ways to be helpful to those who need a helping hand.
