When
Joshua, the successor of Moses, undertook the leadership of the children of Israel, this reassuring message came to him from God, divine Mind: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.
At
the laying of the cornerstone of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1894, Mary Baker Eddy used these words.
In
Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan, it is related that a man who had fallen among thieves lay half dead on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, when "by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
The
prophet Micah, foretelling the coming of the Messiah, declared that he would be "ruler in Israel," and that he would "be great unto the ends of the earth.
It
is recorded of Jesus, in the Gospel of Mark, that "when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
In
proclaiming the truth that God is infinite—All—Christian Science is making known to humanity the tremendously important fact that whatever is unlike good is without actual or real being.
The belief that God required material sacrifices of His people—how persistently through the ages has this misconception hidden from them what alone it is that God does require of men! With the clarity of spiritual vision, the prophet Micah saw and declared it; but as so many others had done before, and were to do after him, he spoke to those who understood him not.
Christ
Jesus not only said, "I and my Father are one," but after his resurrection he also said to Mary Magdalene, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
