Article December 21, 1946 Issue

Man Is Never under a Strain

ROBERT DOLLING WELLS

Man is the child or reflection of God. Because God is never under any strain, man, His reflection, cannot be. Human fatigue and weariness are not known to the perfect man, and Jesus commanded (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Through spiritually understanding God and His work we can sufficiently demonstrate the perfection of man to carry out the tasks before us. This is the promise of Christian Science.

Christian Science starts from the very logical premise that God is infinite, omnipresent good. An infinite God means a God who is All-in-all. In the allness of divine perfection man exists as reflection. God is not Father and man His child in the sense that we think of this relationship humanly; that is, there is no separation of God and man into two independent beings. Rather do God and man coexist as the sun and the sunlight coexist. The sun does not originate little suns, but sunlight. It follows that man's action is always without effort on his part because it is God, Mind, who is ever causing man and his activity.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 124): "Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification."

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

The Secret and Safe Place