Article October 16, 1920 Issue

True Saving

FRANK BARNDOLLAR

Because of the commonly accepted meaning of the word save, humanity has become accustomed to believe in the possibility of an experience of so-called loss. Particularly during the recent war was the possibility of this experience emphasized by the innumerable admonitions from all sources to be saving of certain commodities or that we should perform stated functions in order that the possible loss of those things held most dear might be forestalled. Often have we heard it said that definite conditions must become manifest in order that a situation be saved and as often have we observed, though remedy after remedy is applied and all known precautions taken to avert a calamity, that the sense of loss seems to predominate.

When weighed down with a deep sense of loss or when in dire circumstances, it has ever been the custom of Christian people to turn to God for comfort and succor, and truly has it been proved that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." The life of Christ Jesus was one long line of proofs that, no matter how distressing seemed the manifestation of the belief in the sense of loss, God, the all-seeing, all-acting, all-loving, and eternal is ever present and omnipotent. Throughout his short but illuminant career, Jesus was ever proving the falseness of a belief of loss, through the demonstration of God's power and ever presence. One of his earliest statements records a correction of this false sense of loss. His parents, when they found him after a three-day search "sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions," were amazed and asked why he was so conducting himself. Jesus, turning to his mother, made answer, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" thus signifying that he was not lost, though human sense believed him to be so, but was even then performing his destined mission, that of saving or presenting for all the knowledge of God and God's creation. The false sense of lack, he corrected by turning water into wine; that of sight, that of hearing, of health, and finally of life itself, were all corrected through the demonstration of the saving Principle of the Christ.

Now it is recorded that Jesus admonished his followers for all time to come to perform these saving works even as he did; to heal the sick, to make the lame to walk, the blind to see, the dumb to talk, and to raise the dead; and, as in the case of the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane when their Master's hour of betrayal was at hand, the eyes of mankind have been closed and they have slumbered in the belief of loss instead of remaining awake listening to the voice of Truth and demonstrating Truth's saving mission as did the as did the Galilean Prophet. Thus has mankind remained unconscious of the true significance of Jesus' work, unaware of the fact that Jesus labored not to bring about physical phenomena but to demonstrate the spiritual significance of the word save, or to prove eternally the entity of God. The sleep has been deep and of many generations.

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