Article February 27, 1926 Issue

Salvation

ERNEST C. REED

As students of Christian Science, we are learning how to obtain our salvation from sin, disease, and death, our deliverance from every discordant condition known to humanity. Was not our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, ever busily engaged in preaching and demonstrating salvation as a practical, present possibility? He helped men to realize their God-given dominion over all the earth, and their right to be free from everything unlike good. He thereby justified his statement that heaven is not a far-off locality, but is always at hand, even an harmonious state of consciousness, within all the children of divine Love.

We find it recorded in the fourth chapter of Luke that in the very earliest experience of Jesus' ministry of glad tidings, he returned "to Nazareth, where he had been brought up," and entering a synagogue read from the book of the prophet Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." And as he sat down he gave all to understand that the time had come for the prophetic glad tidings of salvation to be fulfilled on earth, for the glorious benefit of mankind.

How clearly John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, saw and realized that salvation is something to be enjoyed without passing through the mortal experience called death when, as an exile on Patmos, he beheld that which others did not see, namely, "a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away"! Continuing in that exalted state of consciousness, he heard the voice of omnipresent Love saying: "The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Is not this same salvation proclaimed and acknowledged in this age all around the globe in the many testimonies of thanksgiving at our Wednesday evening meetings and in our weekly and monthly Christian Science periodicals, the Sentinel, Journal, and Heralds?

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