Those who served in the last World War soon learned that no human quality which they possessed, however desirable, no human training which they had received, however thorough, was adequate to save them from the dangers and disasters continually threatening those in combat. No, human safeguards were not enough; and many young men and women who had always relied upon their own efficiency now cried out for a savior.

It is not only in times of emergency that there is need of a savior. Scarcely a day passes that does not bring problems too intricate for human wisdom to solve, questions too difficult for human philosophy to answer. Sometimes the problems seem trivial compared to the emergencies of human existence, yet these daily pinpricks would take the joy out of many days and nights, unless handled by spiritual methods, as a student of Christian Science discovered.

For some time this student had been wrestling with a minor problem, letting it rob her of the serenity which was her birthright. Many human methods of correcting the situation had been tried in vain. Finally one day Truth spoke to her after this fashion: "You are trying to save yourself. Have you forgotten that you have a Saviour?" Then the poem by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, which begins (Poems, p. 75), "Saw ye my Saviour?" flooded her thought with new meaning, and, ceasing to employ useless human methods and relying wholeheartedly on the power of Truth, she soon rejoiced in entire freedom.

One lesson learned in this experience was the value of turning at once to Christ, Truth, the impersonal Saviour, thus avoiding much mental and physical discomfort. She found that Jesus' teachings and demonstrations as explained in Christian Science afford an unerring example as well as adequate rules for working out any problem.

The Old Testament records many instances of the saving power of the Messiah, or Christ. Abraham was saved from the needless sacrifice of his son Isaac, Naaman from leprosy, the Shunammite woman from grief and loss. The New Testament contains the unparalleled account of Jesus' demonstration of Christ, Truth, which was repeated in a degree by his disciples and the apostles.

How strange, then, that later theologians should place all the emphasis on salvation from sin! The Bible testifies clearly to the Christpower as able to save from all forms of discord, including disease and death. "Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved" (Jer. 17:14). "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth" (Isa. 45:22). "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. ... And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:15, 17, 18). These texts indicate the universal nature of salvation and the applicability of the law of God, good, to all the problems of human experience.

Mrs. Eddy explains the adequacy of the Saviour, the everpresent Christ, Truth, to heal the sense of grief and self-condemnation in a stanza of the poem referred to:

This Saviour, which saves from every phase of sin, disease, ignorance, fear, lifts burdens, gives rest to the weary, and revitalizes drooping hopes. It reveals the truth about God and about man, His reflection. Jesus said (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free;" and our Leader, on page 126 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states her own experience as follows: "I have demonstrated through Mind the effects of Truth on the health longevity, and morals of men; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles."

The truth about mathematics saves from mistakes, confusion, failure; the truth about astronomy saves from wrong calculations and conclusions. The value of knowing these truths is conceded by all. How much more earnestly, then, should we seek to know the truth revealed in the Bible and Science and Health that man, God's image, can express only what God expresses: wholeness, health, intelligence, holiness; the truth that man is governed only and always by divine Principle, God, and that he is subject to no law but the law of Love.

Jesus set clearly before us the truth of man's pre-existence when he said, referring to his spiritual selfhood, or Christ (John 8:58), "Before Abraham was, I am." Who can plumb the depth of meaning revealed in that statement; for does it not show that man has by reflection all that the Father has? A knowledge of man as the eternal expression of his Maker, ever one with Him, destroys every conceivable reason for envy, jealousy, distrust, and separation.

The multitude that followed Jesus wanted to be saved from many things—disease, hunger, fear. The blind cried out for sight, the dumb and the deaf for speech and hearing. And he healed and restored them all through the power of the Christ. Mrs. Eddy says of him (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 163), "Only three years a personal Saviour! yet the foundations he laid are as eternal as Truth, the chief corner-stone"

Today Christian Science reveals Christ as the ever-present impersonal Saviour, and increasing numbers are recognizing the Christ, Truth, as the true Saviour, finding inadequate the human panaceas and efforts to gain satisfaction and healing from material means.

There are many people in the world today who are still looking for the promised Messiah. There are others who, though accepting Christ Jesus as the Messiah, are watching for the second coming. The world can never pay its debt of gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her revelation that Christian Science is the second coming, even the promised Comforter, thereby making it plain that the prophecies concerning Christ, Truth, are already fulfilled.

But to accept this revelation as spiritual truth is not enough. This Christ, Truth, this Saviour, must be diligently sought, must be permitted to save us from every aggressive suggestion of a power apart from God, good, must be allowed to make our every decision, to plan our daily itinerary. Then we can claim the peace of God as our own rich legacy; and Christ, Truth, will be universally acknowledged as the only Saviour, bringing deliverance to all the earth.