Article March 26, 1932 Issue

The Door

LUDA F. CORLEY

The multitude, slow to grasp spiritual truth, failed to understand fully the parable of the good Shepherd; and the tenderly compassionate Christ Jesus endeavored to explain its meaning in further detail. A part of this explanation was, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."

How comforting to know that all who have strayed from the fold into the byways of fear and materiality; who are bruised by the rocks of mortal thinking or torn by the thorns and briers of error; who are weary, worn, and faint, may find entrance through the door, since the promise reads, "if any man"! Having entered by the door, one is promised salvation, or healing from fleshly discords with which he has been bound, cure for every hurt and bruise, freedom from the bondage of erroneous belief and material law. And not only is one to be saved from the claims of matter and error, but he may find pasture, understanding, through which human needs, sustenance, comfort, peace, harmony, are found; and the only requirement is to enter.

It would seem an easy thing to enter by a door. But what is it to enter by that door which is Christ Jesus? Is it not to pattern, in daily living, the life of the Way-shower in overcoming every claim of material sense, in listening for the Shepherd's call and trustingly obeying its directing commands? Is it not to love and live the truth which Jesus presented? Is it not to give proof of the nature of God as he did, through the manifestation of Godlike qualities?

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