Editorial April 3, 1909 Issue

THE UNHIDDEN LIFE

John B. Willis

One of St. Mark's sententious comments respecting the Master, namely, that "he could not be hid," refers primarily to the fact that he often and vainly tried to escape the discomforts of personal intrusion. The desire to make him king, to witness his astonishing miracles, to secure some coveted benefit, or to gratify an aimless curiosity,—these and other kindred impulses must have largely dominated the multitude who thronged about him day after day, and the annoyance and profitless inconvenience they brought him can be readily understood by those who are familiar with the representative crowd of an oriental city. The deeper significance of these words is disclosed, however, in the fact that the omnipresent Life, Truth, Love which floods every accessible human avenue, found in Christ Jesus an open door of egress and manifestation.

As the summer draws near the evidences of an irrepressible presence are multiplying on every side. A tremendous force is astir. Every bud has become a prophet of its nearness, and we are being made more and more aware of a mighty somewhat which indeed cannot be hid. The first soft ripples of its flow are already beginning to be seen upon the northern hillsides, and the fulness of its tide will soon be the glory of half the world. We shall lose the better part, however, of this splendor of the spring thus hastening to its fragrant fruitions, if it does not bring to our thought ever-repeated suggestions of the active nearness of that eternal truth and goodness which came to its own in the gentle Man of Nazareth, and thus made him forever conspicuous. Jesus could no more be "hid" than could the dawn of a summer's day, for his life presented in its completeness the distinctive phenomena of the Christ-coming, God-with-us, the greatest possible event of every age and every life.

And this is the glory and the gladness of Christian Science, that it recognizes the individual life as the natural point of radiation for that light which is "above the sun;" it finds in Christ Jesus the type and pattern of our true manhood, and it begets that consciousness of the omnipresence of Truth and Love which led the psalmist to query, "Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"

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