Editorial June 2, 1928 Issue

"What think ye of Christ?"

Albert F. Gilmore

The Master's query to the Pharisees, "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" their manifest ignorance of the character, origin, and mission of the Christ, and the cogent reasoning with which Jesus refuted their statements utterly routed the Jews endeavoring to entrap him. Not only were those materialists unable to follow his keen logic, but they failed even so much as to glimpse the spiritual idea which Christ Jesus then and on many other occasions set before them. And yet, to understand the Christ, Truth, to gain some knowledge of the divine Comforter, was their necessity, as it has always been and still is the need of every mortal in order to work out his salvation, gaining freedom from sin and its enslavement.

The query, "What think ye of Christ?" is no less pertinent now than when uttered nineteen centuries ago; and the answer returned is a sure criterion of one's spiritual status. Moreover, upon the right understanding of God and His Christ rests the salvation of the human race. Christian Scientists owe no greater debt of gratitude to the revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, than for the revelation to this age of the Christ as the full expression of God, the healing and regenerative Truth, ever present at the door of consciousness, awaiting a signal to enter. So complete is her revelation that nothing remains but to grasp it, and the divine Comforter becomes at-one with our daily experience.

What we know of God depends upon our understanding of the Christ; for Christ unveils God through the vision purified and exalted by righteous prayer. And we find in the Christ revealed Truth, with which to refute the arguments of error, every claim of matter, whatever its name and seeming character. Furthermore, since understanding of the Christ constitutes exact knowledge of God and His creation, it becomes the Christian's necessity to lay hold of the Christ as the savior and redeemer of all mankind.

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