Article May 29, 1943 Issue

The Source of Individual Life and Power

CLIFFORD P. SMITH

The teaching done by Christ Jesus as recorded in the New Testament was simple rather than complex. His usual method was to present ideas one by one, without developing all their implications or tracing all their relations. Thus, he taught the oneness of God and man in brief words, and left the full significance of this fact or truth to be developed by the Comforter, or "Spirit of truth," which he promised would complete his teaching.

Christian Science is the promised Comforter. It glorifies the Master as no other teaching has done. It has been revealed through one of his followers who could both receive and communicate the spiritual facts of being. This Science restores the Master's original teaching as distinguished from accumulated interpretations and substitutions; it also construes and applies his teaching to practical needs as he must have intended.

Of the four Gospel writers, only one the beloved John, recorded the following sayings of the Master: "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30); and, "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are" (John 17:11). In such a text as the one just quoted, the words "through thine own name" allude to God's nature and the constant impartation of it to man through reflection.

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