Article September 26, 1901 Issue

Be Ye Perfect

BY E. ROSE COCHRANE.

Thousands of years ago the children of Israel were taught, "Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God."

Jesus repeated the same thought and said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect." To-day we rejoice that the same teaching is made plain to those who, "having eyes," see that what was possible thousands of years ago must be possible in our day, if God is what the Bible declares Him to be, "the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."

In the beginning God was good, all that He made was good, and He made All, and as "Unity of Good" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, says, "this convinces us that, as we get still nearer Him, we must forever lose our own consciousness of error" (p. 5). Jesus taught the way—we must love God, and our neighbor as ourselves. Can we do this unless the perfect model is ever in our thought? The good, the perfect man, we must begin to look for at once.

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