Article July 5, 1941 Issue

Claiming Our Divine Heritage

KURT E. FRITSCH

Some time ago one student of Christian Science asked another how he should claim his divine inheritance. By way of illustration, the one questioned pointed to the case of some individual who has inherited a fortune, money, securities, and other possessions. How can such a one use it if he has not been informed that these things have been left to him? And being informed, how can he use them until and unless he claims them and makes them his own? He must learn of the inheritance, claim it, and make it his in order to enjoy and use it.

Thus it is in our experience as Christian Scientists. We cannot demonstrate the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God for ourselves and others unless and until we accept the truth of being; that is, claim our spiritual heritage as the child of God, created in His likeness, completely, definitely, eternally existing at the standpoint of perfection.

Christ Jesus beautifully illustrated this fact of spiritual sonship in his parable of the prodigal son. When, in the narrative, the elder brother expressed his dissatisfaction because the younger son, who had erred, was welcomed home, the wise father responded with the comforting words, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." Is not this statement applicable today, in our everyday activities? Do we not in our true selfhood, as children of God, possess through reflection all that the Father bestows? God withholds nothing from His children. Let us then claim our divine heritage, which is spiritual and indestructible, not subject to loss, chance, change, or decay, and which is ours through eternity, by realizing our at-one-ment with the Father, our inseparability from God.

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