The Oneness of Authority and Service

On page 127 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity." The universality of truth and its application includes right solution to all problems, universal and individual, and yet they are not diverse, but one problem. One knowledge that two times two equals four, destroys, when applied, every misstatement about it, and in the same way, the truth about authority, authorization, and government, destroys every false belief, misunderstanding, and misrepresentation about them. Just now the question of authority and authorization is very largely in the world's thought, and it is searching for some rock, some sure foundation. Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build my church," and that rock, through the clear spiritual illumination of our textbook, becomes visible, not as a human personality, but as the supremacy of infinite Spirit. The church founded on that rock is destined to fulfill the church's mission of proving that "illimitable divinity" is adequate to unfold every honest search for more enlightenment and expansion into fruition.

This truth about church reveals also the truth worshipers and their wonderful bond of brotherhood, the unity of Spirit against the same doubts and fears, the same malice and hate of the carnal mind, the hell of malicious hypnotism, which would attempt the disintegration and destruction of this spiritual bond. The Master said, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." This condition fulfilled reveals the church of which Isaiah prophetically foretold that "all nations shall flow unto it." As a natural sequence of the desire to fulfill that condition, to tell others of the supremacy of Spirit, revealing the brotherhood of man, came the opportunity afforded by our beloved Leader in her establishment of The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, Der Herold, and Le Heraut, to knit together in ever increasing number in all parts of the world those endeavoring to worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for mutual help and encouragement. Thus these periodicals were founded on the truth of being, that which is eternally true of God, man, and the universe, and so long as they are correct in stating the Principle of Christian Science, and are in conformity with what Mrs. Eddy says in the Manual (Art. VIII, Sect. 11), of any writer, "His writings must show strict adherence to the Golden Rule, or his literature shall not be adjudged Christian Science," the periodicals are living witnesses of the new tongue of Spirit, a characteristic of all believers who are "kings and priests unto God," and as such are indeed "living stones." No cruel dogmas or excommunication pronounced by creeds can touch those witnesses to Truth, nor can they be thought of as emanating from matter, persons, printers, or printing press, or be killed by being held in matter.

How the true idea of divine authority and service rules out all mammon worship, all substitution of the mesmerism of materiality and subservience thereto, for the humbleness of mind, "the simplicity which is in Christ," which waits on divine intelligence for its expression of intuition and inspiration, because the impartation of Truth is exactly adapted and adequate to meet the demand, universally, collectively. Under that authority there is neither mutiny nor rebellion, because in it there is no threat to terrorize into fear of loss, no lack of understanding that would crush the thought seeking rightful expression, but instantaneous, spontaneous response. Thought obedient to divine revelation is never lawless, is untouched by desire for human approbation and applause, for Truth communicates such a sense of divine assurance that the human will, wish, and desire is lost, becomes nothing in the grandeur and largeness of the expanding outlook. The highest peaks of the Alpine mountain ranges first catch the rays of the rising sun, because they are the highest, but it is the sun that reveals their beauty and purity of expression and outline.

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