Article November 15, 1900 Issue

Harmony

BY LOUISE DELISLE RADZINSKI.

IN the seventeenth chapter of St. John's gospel, we are told how our Lord Jesus Christ prayed for the disciples he was so soon to leave; after asking the Father to give eternal life to as many as the Father had given him, Jesus defined eternal life as the science, or knowledge of the only true God, and of Jesus Christ, as His Son, and prayed that they might be preserved from the temptations and dangers of the world. Continuing, Jesus prays: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them. as Thou hast loved me."

These words show that only as Christians are one, one in Love, one in harmony, can they realize, and demonstrate to the world, the love of Christ for them, their oneness with Christ, and the oneness of Christ with God; also that only through such a demonstration of oneness, can the world be made to believe in the Christ

Further, this oneness is made the condition under which perfection is attained, that the injunction may be obeyed, to be "perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," and the world be made to see unmistakably that God had manifested Himself in the Christ. All this stupendous result to be wrought by the union, in harmony, of those who believe on Jesus as the demonstrator of God— Love.

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