Article April 10, 1948 Issue

THE REALM OF THE REAL

L. CECIL STUDDERT KENNEDY

Within a few brief years important discoveries in the realm of human thinking have produced many useful things and brought great material progress. And yet, wonderful as this progress is and useful as these things are, being changeable, finite, and vain they fail to satisfy the innermost yearnings of the hearts of men. Human inventions do not help us to gain an understanding of what Jesus meant when he said to the men of his day (Luke 17:21), "The kingdom of God is within you." Nor do they lead to the fulfillment of this great promise of the Bible (Rev. 21:4): "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

Jesus' arresting statement, based on undeniable demonstration, and God's revelation to John turn our thought with sudden directness away from any formidable array of material achievements to the satisfying realm of reality, to God and His perfect, spiritual creation.

Christian Science speaks to us in no uncertain terms of this realm of the real. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy asks (p. 174), "What is the kingdom of heaven?" And she answers her own question: "The abode of Spirit, the realm of the real. No matter is there, no night is there—nothing that maketh or worketh a lie. Is this kingdom afar off? No: it is ever-present here." And she continues: "The first to declare against this kingdom is matter. Shall that be called heresy which pleads for Spirit—the All of God, and His omnipresence?"

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