Editorial April 1, 1939 Issue

Fulfillment

Evelyn F. Heywood

"Search the scriptures," said Jesus to the people, "for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." Jesus, who accepted as real only the identity of spiritual selfhood, had found in the Scriptures the eternal evidence of man's oneness with the Father; while his opponents, because of their intellectual pride and narrowness of vision, claimed to refute all evidence of his sonship and his mission.

Why did the scribes and Pharisees refuse to come to Jesus for a knowledge of Life, to him who showed that he understood more of the meaning and practical expression of Life than anyone had ever done? Because they were studying and practicing merely the letter of what they read—blind to its spiritual message and the need of applying it in their own lives. What wonder that, unwilling to accept the spirit of the Christ as manifested by the prophets, they failed to recognize the Messiah when he appeared before them! That which has prevented or delayed discernment of spiritual values has always been the world's championship of, and submission to, materiality.

The true reflection or manifestation of God, the I AM THAT I AM, to which Moses bore witness, and which Jesus demonstrated as the Christ, was the light which the darkness could not comprehend. The Scriptures, testifying of God, testify also of the Christ, since neither in revelation nor in demonstration can the divine idea be separated from its divine Principle. On page 332 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy has written, "Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth." With this consciousness of the oneness of Principle and its idea, Jesus identified himself with those who, in the Scriptures, had been the representatives of God.

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