Article August 6, 1927 Issue

"Is Christ divided?"

MABEL REED HYZER

In his first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul asks the pertinent question, "Is Christ divided?" And upon its answer depends the solution to our problems, the way to our progress, and our right to glory.

In the tenets of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy has written (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 497): "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter: and man in God's image and likeness." When as Christian Scientists we become members of The Mother Church or of a branch of it, we joyfully assent to this declaration, and are benefited, if we are worthy, by the blessings such assent involves. It is one of our greatest privileges to become a member of a Church of Christ, Scientist; and this privilege must not be taken lightly, lest we lack in fulfilling our obligations thereto.

The Mother Church will continue to exist through all time, because it stands for the one Christ; because it is established on the truth that Christ is not divided. If we will ponder upon how much this statement may mean to us in our daily experience, we may be greatly encouraged and inspired thereby. The healing of ourselves and others is brought about by knowing the one Christ. If a belief of discord should appear in our experience, shall we not at once strive to realize the one Christ, which Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 333) "expresses God's spiritual, eternal nature"? Suppose a belief in discord takes the form of disagreement with a neighbor. Suppose each maintains and continues to insist that he is right, would there ever be a healing of the difficulty? But if one is righteously and scientifically seeking to know the one Christ, how quickly and completely harmony may be restored!

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