Editorial April 6, 1946 Issue

"Lo, I am with you"

Margaret Morrison

"Lo, I am with you alway even unto the end of the world." What enabled Jesus to give this comforting message to his disciples as he was about to leave the world of sense and no more be visible to them as a beloved teacher and friend? Was it not that he had been tempted like as we are and had proved the utter nothingness of all the pretensions of matter? He demonstrated in his own living the unreality of all the claims of the carnal mind to existence and power, and the ever-presence of the Christ. Truth, to free and bless. Identifying himself with the Christ, he could promise his ever-presence and truly say, "Lo, I am with you alway."

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 564), "Since Jesus must have been tempted in all points, he the immaculate met and conquered sin in every form." Who then so able as he to know the purity and ever-presence of Spirit, divine Mind? When he refused to turn stones into bread to appease hunger, Jesus met the temptation to believe that life is in matter or sustained by matter. He knew and proved that life is spiritual, sustained by Spirit alone. Who so able then as he to promise the ever-presence of Life and its sustaining power?

He rejected the temptation to prove the power of God by sensational acts performed for the glorification of self, as an exhibition of personally possessed power. He knew that his salvation and the salvation of the world depended not on such sensational exhibitions of power, but on the individual overcoming of the sinful, sick, and limiting beliefs of the flesh, and the realization of the true status of man as the son of God. Who then so able as he to promise the ever-presence of Truth, whose reflection is the true idea which frees from all evil and mortality?

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