Article December 18, 1926 Issue

"Go ye into all the world"

ETHEL MARY PERKINS

We have learned in Christian Science of the joy and strength to be obtained from moments spent on the mountain. Jesus often spent whole nights there with God. For him they were times of preparation. Then he came down again into the world, into the market place, among the crowds. He loved to be among his fellow-men, with the rich or with the poor, the honored or the outcast. Jesus knew that the understanding of the fatherhood of God is best expressed in the brotherhood of man. "Go ye into all the world"—not to a chosen few, but to all—and "preach the gospel to every creature."

And how can we do this? We know that God is infinite, unlimited. We know that God, good, is bound neither by space nor by time. We know that God is Love, infinite Love, knowing neither Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free; that with God there are no class distinctions, no racial differences, no creeds. With God there is the perfect man, made in His image and likeness; and this is the truth we are to preach. We, as Christian Scientists, must reflect infinite Love everywhere—not only to our immediate circle, not only to our own branch church, but through all the activites of the Christian Science movement, embracing all the world.

Out of her great love for all the world, Mrs. Eddy sent forth our daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent;" and she also added that its object is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353). Are we doing all we can for this paper? Is it enough to subscribe for it, to enjoy reading it ourselves, or even to pass it on to others? Perhaps we remember to offer it, early and clean, to be used for church distribution. Is even that enough? Perhaps we take part ourselves in the distribution work, giving loving thought and prayerful preparation to this service. All this is right and good; but are we doing all we can? Are we spreading "undivided" the truth which "operates unspent"?

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