Editorial September 4, 1926 Issue

Meekness and Might

Duncan Sinclair

The mightiest man who ever walked this earth was Christ Jesus; and he was also the meekest. He healed the sick, destroyed sin, stilled the raging elements, raised the dead, in every instance annulling the false claims of material law through his understanding of spiritual law. On a certain occasion after he had healed an impotent man at the pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath day, the Jews sought to slay him for what he had done; but the Master in justification of his righteous action declared, with that deep humility which characterized him: "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."

The saying of Jesus just quoted gives the key to the solution of the question of humility. His meekness was no superficial mental attitude, but a definite condition of consciousness having its basis in an understanding of God which was profound, accurate, absolute. Jesus recognized God as Truth and Spirit, as the Father whose intelligence and protecting power extended even to the lowliest of His creation, and upon whom man, as the child of God, was entirely dependent; hence his words, "I can of mine own self do nothing." It was because the Master perceived so clearly the allness of God that he was able to subjugate, as he so marvelously did, the false sense of a material selfhood, and to allow the divine will to be done in the destruction of those erroneous beliefs which played such havoc with human peace and happiness.

Christian Science is doing more than any other system in the world to-day to bring to mankind that very understanding of God which the master Christian possessed in such great measure. Through the works of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, it is declaring the allness of God as never before, showing with scientific certainty the relation of man to God and setting forth man's utter reliance upon God, thus bringing to light the true basis of meekness and spiritual might. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle."

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