AFTER Jesus had fed the five thousand and walked on the Sea of Tiberias towards Capernaum the people, impressed by his spiritual dominion over commonly accepted material laws, asked him (John 6:28), "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?"
And Jesus replied, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
Mrs. Eddy refers to the meaning of this word "believe" in a different, though not dissimilar, context. She invites us in "Miscellaneous Writings" to see what it means to believe, and says (p. 197): "It means more than an opinion entertained concerning Jesus as a man, as the Son of God, or as God; such an action of mind would be of no more help to save from sin, than would a belief in any historical event or person. But it does mean so to understand the beauty of holiness, the character and divinity which Jesus presented in his power to heal and to save, that it will compel us to pattern after both; in other words, to 'let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.' (Phil. ii. 5.)"
