Article December 24, 1927 Issue

"Be ye therefore perfect"

HARRIET M. IREY

WE find in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy this instructive and helpful information (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." In the fifth chapter of Matthew we read, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Christ Jesus acknowledged no human father. He saw and acknowledged only the one creation, God's perfect spiritual creation, as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis.

Because the Master realized only the good and the true, he mastered every form of error that material sense presented to him. He annihilated error by his understanding of God, good, as the only power. His pure, correct thinking rebuked error. The woman who touched his garment was healed before she had even talked with him; she felt the power of God, revealed through the good and pure Christ Jesus. He used no formula in his treatment of disease. He at all times went to the Father, and there gained the truth necessary for each case. He is quoted in the Scriptures as saying, "What things soever he [the Father] doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

Healing was practiced for about three hundred years after Jesus ascended above mortal view; but disobedience, love of material knowledge and of place and power caused for a time the apparent loss of spiritual understanding. Man's perfection, however, remained intact. At no time could the man of God's creating serve the fleshpots of Egypt; but to the sinning race of Adam there was great need of the understanding of the true creation, of man's rightful heritage as the son of God. So Science and Health was given to the world, a perfect "key," to bring the children of Israel of to-day out of bondage into perfect liberty.

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