Picture this: Crowds forming, thronging a man. Someone maybe even perching in a tree or climbing on a roof to see him. Perhaps they arrived the night before, and slept on the ground, or huddled under makeshift shelters.
A rock concert? A movie premiere? Not in Galilee nearly two thousand years ago. No. These throngs gathered often to see, hear, and be healed by a former carpenter named Jesus. Many people came out of curiosity alone, but come they did, sometimes by the thousands. Some stayed to learn more about Jesus and his mission. Had they glimpsed that the Saviour they sought was not the carpenter but Christ, the spiritually perfect ideal that Jesus consummately represented?
Jesus promised that the Christ would continue with us forever. Even though Jesus is no longer physically present, that promise has been kept. The Christ, Truth, that Jesus exemplified, that he taught on a Galilean mountainside, in cities and villages, and in the temple at Jerusalem, is found in the teachings and practice of Christian Science. And where better for humanity, still distressed by ills and persecutions, to receive basic relevant answers to its troubles than in a Church of Christ, Scientist? In the Christian Science Sunday School, children can find a foundation on which to build their lives unafraid and free.
