Editorial July 20, 1907 Issue

THE WORK THAT IS "OF GOD."

John B. Willis

To understand God is the work of eternity.—Science and Health, p. 3.

No one can take up the study of Christian Science without making the speedy discovery that in its use of phrases and words it is giving a new and more spiritual significance to the language. The commonly accepted meaning gives place to a deeper, more metaphysical, more vital import, and this enrichment of the content of terms characterizes every statement of the Word of God.

Unnumbered illustrative instances present themselves, but none are more pertinent than that of the higher thought which in Christian Science attaches to the word "work." Jesus frequently used it as a symbol for energetic effort in righteous and worthy ways, but upon the occasion of his public teaching at Capernaum he used the term in an entirely different sense. He had been rebuking the many for following him with an eye to the loaves and fishes, and in seeking to impart to them a nobler sense of the verities of Life he said, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." The higher doing for God is defined as the realization and maintenance of a mental attitude. It is the "exercise of faith," and it is to this normal prerogative and activity of man that our Leader refers when she says, "He reflects the divine might. He is not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion" (Science and Health, p. 518).

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