Editorial January 7, 1928 Issue

"Ye are all the children of light"

Duncan Sinclair

What joyous words were those of Paul to the church of the Thessalonians: "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." Surely the great Apostle to the Gentiles had learned the lesson of the Master well,—the lesson which taught the fatherhood of God,—and had imparted it faithfully to the Christians of that far-away city by the Ægean Sea.

We may not know exactly how these early Christians looked upon their true selfhood; but this we can be certain of, they understood enough about the real man to render them happy in the lives they led, and joyful in the contemplation of eternal life. Jesus had not imparted the knowledge we now possess of divine Science to his disciples, and these disciples could not therefore bestow it upon others; but faith and hope and love and the certainty of spiritual reality the Master did bestow, and these became characteristic of every one of his loyal followers.

If the early Christians could be called "the children of light," it is reasonable to think that the term may be equally applicable to the Christians of to-day who are living in the light of Christian Science, the Science which reveals God and man to men. The revelation of God and His creation, contained in the pages of the Bible, is very great; but not till Christian Science came was that revelation ever so spiritually illumined. And, besides, there have been added to it by Christian Science those spiritual truths which, when taken in conjunction with the truth set forth in the Bible, equip mortals as never before for the Christian warfare.

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