Editorial April 22, 1939 Issue

Control

Evelyn F. Heywood

On page 294 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy has written that if the Master were with us today, "he would mightily rebuke a single doubt of the ever-present power of divine Spirit to control all the conditions of man and the universe."

It was the mission of Christ Jesus to proclaim and establish the consciousness of Spirit's control in all the affairs of men. He came to teach humanity the true meaning of control; to show them that the control which they had exercised could be replaced by the divine will; that the spiritual control which belonged to them, but of which they were ignorant, could be restored; that the law of God was not remote and inaccessible, but present now in the Christ-message of redemption and healing. In Luke we read, "Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected."

Jesus found a world in which man's heritage of divine control had its counterfeit in domination and tyranny, in defenselessness and confusion; a world which, having usurped the prerogative of Spirit, had imposed upon itself the limitations and blind forces of human will. He found mortals suffering under the illusion that they were at the mercy of superstitions and limitations which they called laws, and from which, not comprehending the delivering law of Spirit, they believed they were unable to escape.

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