Whatever theologians in times past or present have brought out in their interpretations of the life and works of Christ Jesus, they have never explained that he was a Scientist. But Christian Science reveals him in this thrilling role. Mary Baker Eddy declares, "Jesus of Nazareth was a natural and divine Scientist."Retrospection and Introspection, p. 26; Perhaps the world had to wait until the natural scientists advanced to the point of bringing material conditions and environment under control before people would be ready to admit that Jesus was a Scientist and that he proved Christianity and true Science to be one.
The Science Jesus demonstrated was the Science of Spirit, God, which masters matter, the opposite of Spirit, and all limitations of environment and Christian character. While the natural scientist works with matter, researches its laws and subordinates them to his present sense of intelligence, Jesus worked with Spirit and proved the power of its laws over material conditions of every kind.
He accomplished all that physicists aim to do, and more. He eliminated space, transmuted material substances, stilled a storm, overcame gravitation, multiplied food, restored lost faculties, healed the sinful and sick, and raised the dead. What a record of scientific achievement! To contemplate it should lead human thought to the true meaning of Christianity and set the scientific researchers to work along spiritual lines.
