Article January 13, 1906 Issue

Christian Science, lifting thought above the seen and...

Sue Harper Mims

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution

Christian Science, lifting thought above the seen and temporal, and directing it to the unseen and eternal, takes the first chapter of Genesis as the statement of the spiritual creation, perfect, entire, finished, and pronounced by divine wisdom good, nay, very good,—a creation consisting of the unfolding or revelation of truth to or above the chaos of a seeming mist of human thought. This infinite light, dispelling the darkness or negation of false sense ignorance, is ever revealing more of the divine character of man and the universe. "The sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us," "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

Now that which makes manifest is light; as St. Paul writes, Christ Jesus "brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." The spiritual and only creation must, therefore, consist of the revelation of the eternal, changeless facts of a creator who is Spirit and Life, and of a spiritual cosmos, as perfect as its cause or creator. The Scriptures record the spiritual progress or history of mankind, ever expressing the power and presence of an overruling divine Principle, "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The mist arising from the ground, the illusory sense, is gradually lifted by the units of spiritual consciousness, the prophets and apostles, Abraham, piercing this illusion, revealed the power of faith in the invisible. Moses discerned the pattern in the mount and revealed the triumphant power of God over seeming material obstacles. Isaiah had a wonderful glimpse of the spiritual origin of man, and Jesus fully reveals the divine sonship or indissoluble at-one-ment of God and man in His image and likeness. To-day Mrs. Eddy stands as the Revelator of the Science of Jesus' life and work, or scientific Christianity. The Scriptures begin with the first chapter of Genesis as the account of spiritual creation, wherein man has dominion over all the earth, being the highest expression of Mind, God; and they end with the book of Revelation, wherein John beholds the ever-present spiritual universe, the new Jerusalem, wherein is "no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." The Adam theory, or the belief of mind in matter, has never healed or benefited one human being; whereas the revelation of the divine presence and power forever heals, saves, and blesses humanity, and, as Isaiah says, will gradually "remove the covering over the face of all nations," and reveal man and the universe at one with divine Love, the eternal Principle of being, wherein we may love our neighbor as ourselves, and all malice, ambition, and evil will vanish, like the darkness, into its native negation.

Sue Harper Mims.

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