Article January 7, 1905 Issue

Salvation

JOHN L. RENDALL.

Paul's injunction, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," is accompanied by the promise, "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." From the Christian Science view point, salvation is very practical and includes much more than is embraced within the ordinary acceptation of the word. It becomes more than an abstract term embodying a future hope. Rather is it a very present event, "Now is the day of salvation."

With the Christian Scientist, salvation is an individual experience contingent upon individual understanding and assimilation of truth. In proportion as the individual gains a clearer concept of God and his relation to Him, he finds a present and available salvation, embracing every avenue of life,—that recognition of Truth which enters his consciousness and results in the elimination of all fear, doubt, discord,—whatever "maketh and worketh a lie."

Does mankind need salvation? emphatically yes. That is, man needs to know the truth. He needs to be awakened from the lethargic conditions of the "carnal mind" which constitute the only selfhood of mortality. He needs to be awakened to the recognition of a diviner sense wherein man knows as "he is known," and in this knowledge God's "image and likeness" is brought into a present realization. The text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, studied in connection with the Bible supplies this need.

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