People pause and wonder, "What's developing in my life?" The future offers the hope of good, but the fear of evil often dominates thinking instead, and the fatalistic platitude "Whatever will be will be" is not a satisfactory answer for most of humanity.
Christian Science teaches that under God's law only good has the power to develop. The evil of the world—a supposition of godless, lawless life and substance parading as disease, disaster, and death —is deprived of its supposed developmental power when one understands the nature of God and His creation. Christ Jesus understood God's power as divine law and applied this law to human needs with scientific results. Mrs. Eddy says of him: "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Science and Health, p. 313;
Man's relationship to God as His son, expressing the divine nature, is basic to the Science of Christ, the Science Jesus proved by his healing demonstrations. He understood the Christ to be God's ever-present emanation, available to mankind as the way of salvation. When Jesus, as a personal Saviour, left the world, he promised the coming in his name—his nature—of the Holy Ghost or Comforter, who would abide with men forever. Mrs. Eddy says, when speaking of the Master's promise, "This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science." ibid., p. 55;
