Article April 8, 1905 Issue

Our High Calling

REV. ARTHUR REEVES VOSBURGH.

The teaching of Christian Science has altered our entire thought with regard to God's will to meet our wants, and we are now assured that the divine purpose embraces the satisfaction of every human need, and that every evil shall cease; we therefore no longer ask, with timid apprehension, and much uncertainty, as to whether our healing from sickness as well as sin be according to God's will, but we come to God with confidence that we are fulfilling the divine will in so far as we gain the grace that shall banish all discord and disease from our experience.

In our search for relief from the sickness, want, and woe of mortal experience, we find that the healing of all these conditions is not held before us as a privilege, a boon to be obtained; it is pressed upon us as a responsibility. God not only grants us that we shall find and manifest health, harmony, prosperity, and purity; He demands these things of us, and we stand convicted as unfaithful stewards in so far as we fail to realize these conditions of the true life in our own experience. I knew one who seemed to be thrown on his own resources to make his demonstration of physical healing, to find his way out of the perplexities and diseases of the senses, and in the face of obstacles which seemed to be insurmountable, he was encouraged and stimulated by the fact that others had found their way with the aid of the Bible and Science and Health alone. He saw that Mrs. Eddy had reached the truth with no explicit instruction, except the general precepts and promises of the Bible, and he thought, What others have done I can surely do.

Let us suppose that all this truth given in Christian Science depended on our individual demonstration for its perpetuation; that the alternative was presented us of seeing it disappear from human consciousness if we did not rise to the proof of its truth and power; would we succeed, or fail? In the face of such an alternative is there any Christian Scientist who would not feel the noble impulsion of a supreme need, that for Truth's sake, for humanity's sake he must succeed, he must not fail?

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