Article September 3, 1904 Issue

In the fatherhood of God and the sonship of Christ, Christian Scientists...

William H. Jennings

Nebraska State Journal

In the fatherhood of God and the sonship of Christ, Christian Scientists find a basis for the brotherhood of man, and they maintain with Paul that Christians are joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, and with John that "now are we the sons of God." If we are the sons of God now, we have a right to health and happiness now and here, for it surely would not be "God's way" to have a world full of sick and miserable children. And as "joint-heirs with Christ." we have an equal and joint right to the ability to live a healthy life and the power to help and to heal those who, in ignorance of their divine right to life, liberty, and happiness, are all their lifetime subject to sin and disease.

Jesus himself said of his ministry, the Father "doeth the works." so that we are in perfect accord with the Master on this point. With us, God is the only power, hence it follows that God is the only healing, saving, and life-giving power. It is our understanding that in God, the infinite Life, "we live, and move, and have our being." Should it seem incredible that the royal family of the "King of kings." and "Lord of heaven and earth" can enjoy life and health and happiness? How could we have sick people in God, drawing "life, and breath, and all things" from God? It is this gospel of the supremacy of God, on earth as in heaven, based on His omnipresence, His omnipotence, and His omniscience, which the Master proclaimed, and he commanded his followers to "preach the kingdom of God" and to "heal the sick," preach to the sick and to the sin-sick the good news that God is everywhere, and that wherever God is He is God and governor, whether mortals call the place where the preaching is done heaven, or earth, or hell. Because God is everywhere, then if we are anywhere, we are in God; and since we live in God, under divine law and order, we do not live under the law of sin, disease, and death. And so Paul says, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Whenever and wherever the gospel of the universal and eternal reign of God is preached and accepted; then and there the glorious liberty of the sons of God, the citizens of the kingdom of heaven, will appear, with its consequent freedom from bondage to disease and to degrading habits.

William H. Jennings.
Nebraska State Journal.

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