Christ Jesus was an activist of the highest order. He taught, he preached, he healed. The activism of the Founder of Christianity did not cause him to neglect either religious worship or the common needs of the people. Instead, he combined them, bringing freedom from human woes by his fundamentally spiritual action. So we find him teaching in the synagogues, the schools of his day, preaching by the wayside, feeding multitudes. More important than all else, we find him healing the sick and sinful and raising the dead. Healing was included in his theology, and it can never be taken out of it.
Jesus' remedies for social and personal ills were basically the truths of being that act as laws of destruction to human evils: God as the Father of all; man as God's spiritual son; law as the governing force of the Father's will; life as immortal; and the fact that flesh and its sins, diseases, and death are nothing. With depth of compassion he said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."Luke 12:32 Here the Master's implication was that men should look to God for their all and that they could repeat his works as heirs of the same Father.
In her Miscellaneous Writings, Mary Baker Eddy discusses Jesus' promise in John 14:12: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." She advises that if we would reach the Life that is God we must comply with the condition to believe. She says: "In other words, understand God sufficiently to exclude all faith in any other remedy than Christ, the Truth that antidotes all error. Thence will follow the absorption of all action, motive, and mind, into the rules and divine Principle of metaphysical healing."Mis., pp. 194,195
