Editorial October 1, 1927 Issue

God's Kingdom

Duncan Sinclair

"Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations"—words of the one hundred and forty-fifth psalm. How wonderful was the insight of the Hebrew sages into spiritual Truth! To think that they understood God's kingdom to be everlasting and His government to be eternal!

It was long after the sentence just quoted had been penned, that one far more highly endowed spiritually than their author, made reply to the Pharisees who demanded of him "when the kingdom of God should come," in the words, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Christ Jesus thus taught that the kingdom of God—the "everlasting kingdom" of the Hebrew seer—is spiritual, and within one's consciousness. The truth about God and His kingdom was a gradual revelation to mankind. It took many a generation to reach the point where it was possible to give the world the knowledge of spiritual being from the lips of the inspired Prophet of Nazareth. And even then, as the New Testament shows, how few, comparatively, understood his message, so as to make it practical in their lives!

Although Christ Jesus drew the clearest distinction between the so-called world of the material senses and God's kingdom, and proved unmistakably, through healing the sick and overcoming the so-called laws of matter, the reality of Spirit and its kingdom, and the unreality of matter, his teaching and practice remained to a great extent misunderstood until the discovery of Christian Science. Why was this? Because men did not perceive what Christian Science so emphatically sets forth, that since God is infinite Spirit, the universe of reality must be spiritual, and that a real material universe does not exist.

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