Article June 10, 1939 Issue

Will and Wisdom

MARIETTA K. HORNIMAN

Perfect adherence to the will of God characterized Christ Jesus, the master Christian. Therefore, in order to live and prove the blessings of Christianity, one naturally turns to his life as an infallible pattern, a sure guide. Through seeking always to know God's will, and undeviatingly to follow it, Jesus accomplished the full demonstration of eternal life. He proved his oneness with the Father, infinite Spirit, and all mortal evidence vanished in his culminating experience in the ascension. His unquestioned obedience resulted from his understanding of the nature of God as good. For him to pray, "Thy will be done," was for him to pray with the expectation of good; and his daily demonstration of what can be done through realization of man's unity with God, is proof for all time of the efficacy of claiming that unity.

The healings wrought by Christ Jesus were in accordance with the will and wisdom of God, proving the reality of health, harmony, and immortality, and the unreality of sin, disease, and death, and showing conclusively that God is not the author of evil, and that He does not visit it in any form upon His creation. Mary Baker Eddy was enabled to found the Christian Science movement through the same quality of obedience, which she so beautifully expresses in her poem, "Feed My Sheep" (Poems, p. 14), where she writes,

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