Editorial April 30, 1927 Issue

Dutifulness

Duncan Sinclair

After Jesus' memorable talk with the woman of Samaria at Jacob's well in Sychar. "his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat;" for had they not "gone away unto the city to buy meat," even while he "being wearied with his journey, sat ... on the well"? Jesus' reply, a reply almost without parallel in the depth of its spiritual meaning, in part was: "I have meat to eat that ye know not of. ... My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."

The words just quoted present what unquestionably was one of the most marked traits of the great Nazarene, namely, his dutifulness. It has never been doubted by any impartial student of his life and works that he gave an example of faithfulness and obedience unequaled by any other who has lived on earth. Not once did he swerve from the path of duty which had been revealed to him; not once did he shrink from the task of making known to mankind his understanding of God and of demonstrating his understanding in the healing of disease and sin; not even when the grievous trial of the cross was upon him did he fail in dutifulness to God, whom he knew to be his Father, his creator, the source of all good.

In the light of Christian Science, the dutifulness of Christ Jesus becomes plain. God was to him what God is to the Christian Scientist—Spirit, Truth, Love, infinite good. And upon that knowledge he relied at all times. It inspired him in the doing of good, in the demonstration of good, even to the overcoming of the every of death, even to the overcoming of every least trace of the belief that matter is real: his resurrection and ascension proved that. And at the ascension was not his work on earth for God finished?

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