Article January 5, 1907 Issue

A COMPLETE SALVATION

CLARENCE W. CHADWICK.

It is the completeness of salvation that gives it its greatness.
Melvill.

The message of Christian Science to the world is one of completeness. It scales the heights of holiness and from the view-point of pure spirituality it re-echoes the cry of the Galilean Teacher, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Perfection on any plane of human attainment demands the elimination of all mistakes. Mortals may be encouraged by their religious instructors to live as good a life as they can here, leaving the final or complete solution of the problem of salvation for the so-called hereafter, but Christian Science from the mount of spiritual discernment and understanding urges upon mankind the absolute necessity of beginning the great work of overcoming all evil, here and now. In the language of Scripture it says, "Awake to righteousness, and sin not," which reads as follows in the Modern Speech New Testament by Weymouth: "Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin." It emphasizes the fact that no one is morally and spiritually awake to true Christian thinking and living until he recognizes the necessity of crossing swords to-day with every phase of evil that confronts him, instead of leaving much of the struggle to an uncertain future. Lopping off a few branches only, "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof" to work a present salvation from the besetments of sin and disease, does not enable one to glorify God in his body, nor to present it "holy, acceptable unto God," which, according to Scripture, is the only "reasonable service" he can render.

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