Article June 18, 1938 Issue

Honoring Our Creator

LONGLEY TAYLOR

On page 228 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, states: "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God." Is it not plainly evident from this statement that attributing power to error by viewing the material as real, instead of looking to Mind for revelation of the true creation, is to dishonor God?

The question, "Am I putting forth sufficient effort to prove error or matter to be unreal?" is of vital importance to the Christian Scientist, remembering, as he should, that an affirmative answer calls not only for honoring the one creator, Spirit, but for the continous realization that matter is not and never has been the medium of Mind, of man, or of anything real whatsoever. Quite possibly, we have learned to admit theoretically that matter is mindless, sensationless; but so long as we entertain a lingering belief in either good or evil in matter as real, we cannot realize perfection in and of Mind, God. As long as we look upon man as material, we are not seeing the one and only man in and of Spirit, the man made in the image and likeness of God.

Spiritual, pure, beautiful, this man in the likeness of his Maker is ever present; hence the admonition of Jesus to each and every one, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." No longer should we allow the arguments of false theology to relegate the recognition of perfection to a future state. Rising to grasp the meaning of St. Paul's words, "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God," we shall say to the mortal concept of things, "Ye are dead," and shall awaken to accept the fact stated by the apostle, "Your life is hid with Christ in God."

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