Editorial January 16, 1943 Issue

The Starting Point

Evelyn F. Heywood

Primary in our concept of life is our concept of God and of ourselves. How do we reckon ourselves? Adequate to deal with, or at the mercy of, circumstance and environment; mastering or submitting to disability and disease; capable of enduring, or weakening under setbacks and misfortunes? Are we influenced by partisanship, or do we maintain justice however much our personal feelings are involved? Do we reckon ourselves as now young, now old, growing, declining, or are we aware in ever-increasing degree of the man whom God made, whom Science reveals?

On page 8 of her Message for 1902 Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Christ Jesus reckoned man in Science, having the kingdom of heaven within him."

The starting point of Jesus was divine sonship. Thus he perceived himself; thus he consistently perceived his fellow man. "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" he asked the man who had been born blind and whose sight he had restored. And in answer to the question, "Who is he, Lord?" he replied, "Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee."

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