Article December 2, 1905 Issue

Our Heritage

CAROLINE E. LINNELL.

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: . . . Beloved, now are we the sons of God."

This passage has always been a very precious one to every Christian, of whatever creed or sect, but to the majority of Christian thinkers it is but a glorious possibility to be attained in the future, a star of hope pointing upward. When the Christian becomes the Christian Scientist, the passage is illumined as an early morning landscape is transformed by the glory of the risen sun, and a discovery is made, the discovery of the little word "now."

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God," and St. Paul says we are "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." As the glorious truth is borne in upon us that instead of being merely a future possibility this is a present actuality, a glorious fact rather than a distant hope, the heart bows in wonder before the new-old truth, and there comes the question, How can it be that I, in whose character and conduct there seems to be so much which is unlike the Father, am now—even now—a child of God, a joint-heir with Christ?

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