Editorial July 4, 1914 Issue

"Caught up unto God"

John B. Willis

There is nothing quite so gorgeous as a jeweled morning, and those who revel in its freshness and song gain a vision with which no other offering of the day can compare. Every least leaf and blade of grass is adorned with an oriental magnificence. All the flashing splendors of light are revealed in limpid crystals that vie with the brilliants of the Milky Way for number, and that will melt an hour hence into the light to which they have yielded in every angle and arc of their sphered purity. This is the greater marvel of the dewdrops, that they so readily enter into the source of the dawn, thus limning the course of spiritual consciousness and illustrating the meaning of responsiveness to Truth. Welcoming and embosoming the light, they are so flooded with it as to suggest nothing else to those who look upon them. This possibility is due, withal, to their purity. There is no fleck of dust within to mar their irradiation, and when the fulness of the sun has come, they leap unhampered into a larger life.

All this helps one to apprehend the teaching of Christian Science that spiritual capacity is not something that man must acquire; it is native to him as an expression of divine law. When, therefore, human sense awakens to the consciousness of manhood in Christ, its career is predetermined; it is "caught up unto God," and dwells at-one with Him. Salvation is thus seen to be the realization of man's spiritual blend with his Maker, and this distinctive teaching of Christian Science is given the greatest possible emphasis in those wondrous words of the Master, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."

Entirely in keeping with this declaration of the at-one-ment of God and His idea, Mrs. Eddy has grounded the perfectibility of human sense in the perfection of man, and one of the corollaries of this teaching is found on page 39 of Science and Health, where she says, "To break this earthly spell, mortals must get the true idea and divine Principle of all that really exists and governs the universe harmoniously." We are to progress in the spiritual life by persistently knowing the truth of being, by recognizing those eternally harmonious relations in the realm of Spirit which are expressed upon the human plane in the health and happiness that we cannot help longing for.

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