Throughout human history, pure-minded prophets have appeared like shafts of sunlight piercing ominous clouds. In Bible times, facing challenging circumstances, they kept alive the spark of hope in divine deliverance. They loved God and expected good, and the later prophets trustingly waited for the coming of the Messiah.
Then, in fulfillment of prophecy, God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to reveal eternal Truth with its message of freedom from all oppression. Jesus' teaching of God's fatherhood and man's spiritual sonship never compromised with mortal beliefs, but the startling truths he uttered had to be in simple terms to reach the people of his day. Yet Jesus said, "The time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father." John 16:25.
The elucidation of the truth of being demonstrated by Jesus came with the discovery of divine Science, the promised Comforter, by Mary Baker Eddy. For years, chronic suffering and stinging disappointments in family relationships quickened her longing for spiritual enlightenment and healing. Then, in a moment of severe need after an accident, she prayerfully turned to the Bible, felt the eternal power of the Christ, and was restored to normalcy. With her healing came the conviction that all true being is in and of God, Spirit, and that well-being is divinely natural because man is spiritual—created in God's likeness and existing to reflect His perfection.
