Article October 9, 1902 Issue

Salvation

K. E. W.

One of the promises that Jesus gave to mankind was "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and Paul having come to the understanding of this liberating truth through demonstration, declared "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." According to these statements, the knowledge of truth and the knowledge of spiritual law constitute salvation. God has again spoken to mankind through His messenger to this age, and Christian Science—the Science of God—is awakening human consciousness to the knowledge of "the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life" (Science and Health), and to the understanding of spiritual law which is the manifestation of eternally active divine Love.

We find in reading the Gospels that Peter was the first to voice this saving Truth. He replied to Jesus' question: "But whom say ye that I am?" with the answer : "Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God," and Jesus immediately affirmed that the Truth which Peter had declared was the rock upon which he would build his church. This rock, this fact of God's allness and of man's sonship in God,—Christian Science recognizes as the fundamental Truth of Being.

As man through the demonstration over sickness and sin, standing firmly on this rock, denies the evidence of the material senses which claims to be overwhelming, and proves the nothingness of the supposititious opposite of Truth, in the degree that this is accomplished, man enters into the possession of life and his salvation has begun. "He that hath the son hath life; and he that hath not the son of God hath not life."

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