Article March 26, 1938 Issue

The Open Door

KATHERINE C. MC CRACKEN

In Revelation is a promise which is reassuring because it is a statement of divine truth: "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." What is this open door, and what is its significance in relation to Christian Science? In a parable Christ Jesus spoke of himself as "the door of the sheep," by whom all may enter "into the sheepfold" and be saved. Through the realization and demonstration of man's unity with God, he revealed to mankind the "way," the "open door," and earned for himself the name Messiah.

In our own age, the reinstatement of primitive Christianity by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, reveals the same "open door" which no man can shut. The sublime height of Christianity with its unalterable truth of man's oneness with God, is expressed by Mrs. Eddy in the following words (Christian Science versus Pantheism, p. 12): "The altitude of Christianity openeth, high above the so-called laws of matter, a door that no man can shut; it showeth to all peoples the way of escape from sin, disease, and death; it lifteth the burden of sharp experience from off the heart of humanity, and so lighteth the path that he who entereth it may run and not weary, and walk, not wait by the roadside,—yea, pass gently on without the alterative agonies whereby the way-seeker gains and points the path."

Our Master, though with "alterative agonies" from persecution, even to the cross, met and mastered all the claims of matter, or material life. Mrs. Eddy bore the burden of the world's opposition to her discovery, but she successively rose higher in the demonstration and establishment of Christian Science, until she completed a life among men unequaled since the time of Jesus.

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