Article July 21, 1945 Issue

"My peace I give unto you"

WILLIAM E. MASTERSON

Why have so few people found peace, when men have prayed for it through the centuries? Because they have sought it where it can never be found. They have searched for it in matter rather than in the things of Spirit.

Our Master, Christ Jesus, left the human race this comforting assurance (John 14:27): "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." Since he realized he was controlled by God every moment, he found this peace in his complete submission to the government of God, to the rulership of His Christ.

Mary Baker Eddy makes plain through Christian Science how we may bring ourselves under this rulership of the Christ and experience here and now the peace which Christ Jesus left with us. In instructing her followers how to heal the sick, she says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 416. 417), "Teach them that their being is sustained by Spirit, not by matter, and that they find health, peace, and harmony in God, divine Love." Since peace is found in divine Love, the individual finds peace in learning to love. He who loves, as the reflection of Love, is the likeness of Love, and in this Godlikeness he recognizes himself as the child of God's care, at rest in His omnipotence.

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