Christ Jesus' words are of precious import to every earnest student of practical Christianity. He addressed himself to many different states of human consciousness with a loving understanding that covered the whole world's needs. To those still struggling under the full weight of belief in a selfhood apart from God he tenderly said: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." This loving invitation was like a helping hand reaching down in compassion to the burdened human sense in its depths of belief in personal ability or disability. It was as if he had said, Your true selfhood, God's image, has no burden.

Jesus' consciousness of his at-one-ment with God found expression in his words, "I and my Father are one." He was identifying himself with God, infinite intelligence or Mind, acknowledging the fact that his being and activity were one with the Divine Being that is Life, God; that he worked as his Father worked, from the standpoint of Mind. As the Wayshower to all mankind, he made clear the path that all must follow to the full realization of man's divine sonship with God. Mortal sense did not then, and does not now, grasp the import of his recognition of true identity. Jesus' ability to overcome hate with love and death with life was proved in his ascension above a personal sense of himself and revealed his true identity as God's divine expression.

Christian Science is the Comforter which Jesus promised should come after his human experience had fulfilled all that could then be understood. As this Comforter, Christian Science reveals the beauty and power of the deeply significant sayings of our Master. He foretold that this "Spirit of truth" would make clear all that he could not then disclose because thought was not ready for the complete revelation. For those hungering for this full revelation of the Science of Christ and its resultant joy, freedom, and dominion, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," quickens thought to include the understanding of the divine idea of man's at-one-ment with God, which is the Christconsciousness. She expresses the full significance of Jesus' teaching of the allness of God and of man's relationship to Him when she tells us on page 488 of the textbook that "Mind alone possesses all faculties, perception, and comprehension."

A growing realization of this truth comes to the faithful student of Christian Science as he goes about his daily work ascribing to God all-power, presence, intelligence, action—in other words, claiming the Mind that is God as the only Mind, his Mind. Are there home duties to be performed? This is an opportunity to see that in reality what is going on is Mind demanding and supplying order, beauty, purity, joy. Is there a business contract to fulfill? Spiritual sense sees that this is in reality Mind's demand for and supply of intelligence, perspicacity, impartiality, integrity. A call for help? It is Love demanding and supplying its own expression in love, courage, strength, wholeness, or health. All that in reality is going on is the activity of Mind's manifestation as both the demand and the supply of its own qualities. This spiritual activity, or embodiment of good, constitutes the man of God's creating, His idea, witness, or reflection.

Honoring God in this fullest sense—that is, in subjective witnessing from the standpoint of Mind—is unceasing prayer. It allows no room for belief in a matter brain that thinks, in a matter nerve that feels and penalizes itself in that feeling because of its own misconception. As a result of this prayer, Jesus' statements are found to be true: "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light," and, "I and my Father are one." Work done in the light of this realization of at-one-ment with God leaves the worker buoyant, refreshed, joyous, ready for the further unfoldment of his divine selfhood.

When Jesus gave his disciples the beautiful instruction known as the Sermon on the Mount, he led their thought along the path of an ever-unfolding realization of good. His was a practical teaching for daily living. He pointed out the Godlike qualities which must be accepted first in consciousness, and gradually as consciousness in the evangelization of thought. How inspired they must have been when he lifted their thought to contemplate their true selfhood in the words, "Ye are the light of the world"! The significance of these words opens the very doors of heaven; for he did not say, Ye have the light of the world. In other words, man, God's likeness, is not a human person entertaining ideas; he is God's divine idea itself. He is not a separate entity filled with ideas, or spiritual qualities, nor a channel through which these ideas or qualities operate. Such reasoning implies duality, that man has a personal mind of his own, and does not acknowledge the all-oneness of Mind, including man and the universe. When Jesus called his disciples "the light of the world," he addressed their divine nature, the Christ-consciousness, pointing the way through at-one-ment to a full realization of the allness of God. He was awakening each one to see that in reality his true and only being was the divine idea of God, the intelligence, the truth, the glory of Mind in action—the son of God.

That ringing call to live the Christ, Truth, with its meaning fully revealed by Christian Science, is piercing the mist of materiality called personal sense, or human personality. As we waken, the recognition comes that our ever-unfolding spiritual consciousness is the expression of real Being. Thus, the beauty, strength, and wholeness of God's qualities are in operation. "The kingdom of heaven is at hand."