Article March 6, 1926 Issue

Meekness

ELIZABETH JACOB

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 228) Mrs. Eddy has written: "Who shall inherit the earth? The meek, who sit at the feet of Truth, bathing the human understanding with tears of repentance and washing it clean from the taints of self-righteousness, hypocrisy, envy,—they shall inherit the earth, for 'wisdom is justified of her children.'" Wisdom was preeminently justified in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, who was the meekest man that ever lived; and knowing as he did that he could do nothing of himself, he wasted no time trying. Jesus made no vain pleadings for mere wants, because he knew that his Father gave him all he needed from an exhaustless store; and every moment he availed himself of that God-directed supply through a perfect humility, a total giving up of self. The Christ ruled Jesus to the extinction of every mortal belief. Jesus left for all time the lesson of perfect humility; for he declared and lived his declaration, "I can of mine own self do nothing;" and centuries of human pride and egotism have beat against these words in vain.

Somewhat over eighteen centuries after Jesus' supreme demonstration over matter, meekness again burst into blossom in the life of Mary Baker Eddy, whose theme from 1866, when she discovered Christian Science, until 1910, when she passed beyond mortal sight, was, "The Lord he is God; there is none else beside him." The life of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science was beautiful in its meekness. She knew God; and no mortal thinking, pressure, criticism, or unkindness could turn her gaze from her great mission to lift high the of release from the bondage of matter into "the glorious liberty of the children of God."

To mortal sense it may seem hard at times to look beyond the load of earth-care and see spiritual reality. Mortal existence looks so complex, so absorbing, and at times so apart from unreality. Yet it is when the unreal would appear as reality that one must turn his thought in humble recognition of God's allness. It is then he must recognize that there is no inherent power in matter, or in mortal mind; and in so doing he allays the false sense which would appear to him as a god. Evil is ever trying to fasten upon humanity a deeper sense of its reality; and it is this belief, accepted in the hearts and lives of men, which is causing them untold suffering.

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