Article January 7, 1928 Issue

Service

HILDA MARY STEPHENSON

It is generally accepted throughout the Christian world that Christ Jesus set the standard of living for all time. Many and varied, however, are the interpretations as to its exemplification in the daily life. Many people believe that in his wonderful life of service and sacrifice he did everything for them, and that all they have to do is to sit with folded hands and find complete satisfaction and salvation in that belief. Others feel that they have to retire from the normal activities of daily life into seclusion and pray that he will save them.

It is becoming more and more evident on all sides that Christian people are waking up to the fact that Christ Jesus taught and practiced the living truth, and that all progress towards the great and much longed-for goal of "on earth peace, good will toward men" must follow in our daily dealing with our fellow-men through an exercise of just those qualities which Jesus expressed, namely, divine qualities. What Jesus claimed for himself of good, he claimed equally for his brethren as the sons of God; and he consistently taught men so throughout his ministry. Jesus, moreover, proved the practicality of his teaching by bringing into the experience of all who came to him in need immediate amelioration of their distress, whatever its name or nature.

Quite early in his ministry Jesus said, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." It has remained for Christian Science to reveal to the world the great fact that God is divine Mind, the one creative Principle of all that really exists, and that all He creates expresses His own nature, the nature of Love. It therefore follows logically and scientifically that as there is only one Mind or God, there can be but one will, and that will good. Now, as Christian Science has revealed the fact that God's will is good, and has thus made plain Christ Jesus' teaching, it rests with Christian Scientists to make known the fact to the world.

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