Article February 22, 1930 Issue

Following the Way-shower

GRETRUDE L. WHITMORE

While talking with his disciples a short time before his ascension and endeavoring to make them understand that it was necessary for him to leave them, so that "the Spirit of truth," or the Comforter, might come to them, Christ Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Let us see what Jesus meant by this saying. Since among Christian people he is acknowledged as the divine Exemplar, it should be their desire to understand his sayings; for to be his true followers it is necessary to know how he accomplished his mighty works. Both his words and his deeds must be understood. Born of the Virgin Mary, to human sense he partly partook of her material condition, but his spiritual origin enabled him to discern the facts of true being better than any other; and because of his human and divine nature, he became the mediator between God and men. In this way he was our Way-shower.

It was Jesus' mission to reveal to humanity the Science of true being; to teach and prove the real nature of God and man, their divine relationship to each other, and what this understanding does for men; to show all mankind the way to the Father — to God, who is Life of all. In speaking these words, quoted above, to Thomas, it was as if Jesus had said, I am the one who was divinely appointed to show all men the true way of life; how to overcome all mortal woes, including sin, disease, and death; how, finally, to come into a sure and permanent realization of heaven, harmony. The way the Master trod is the way we all must go. The truth he taught and expressed is the truth we too must know and express. The life he lived is the life we must live.

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