Article October 2, 1902 Issue

The Permanence of the Divine Order

Arthur R. Vosburgh

Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser

It seems obvious that Jesus introduced a new divine order that he intended should be perpetual. The whole implication of his teaching, and of all the New Testament writing, is that his followers would understand his principle and do the works he did. It is a matter of history that works of healing the sick, and even of raising the dead, continued for three centuries after the time of the Master. Now the world as never before is turning in its need to the life and teachings of Jesus as the solution of its problem. Men are looking for some spiritual movement and awakening that shall restore the primitive power and influence of Christianity as taught by Christ and his early followers. If Christian Science is not the teaching and the movement that is to accomplish this work, then another must come. Christian Scientists have no question that in Christian Science they find the long-promised deliverer, and they are assured of this because of its practical blessings in health restored, character renewed, and thought illumined.

And they know very well that this which has brought them into more loving nearness with the life and character of Jesus, and which is enabling them continually to prove in every detail of life that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" is not allied to heathen delusion; for its fruits are not the fruits of error, but of truth.

Arthur R. Vosburgh.
In Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser.

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