Article June 5, 1948 Issue

THE CLIMAX OF CREATION

LESLIE BURN ANDREAE

Christ Jesus finished a talk with the Pharisees who were complaining about his disciples plucking corn on the Sabbath, with the words, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath" (Mark 2:27). Hereby he clearly stated man's dominion over the Sabbath, thus refuting the Pharisees' sense of it. The Sabbath is to serve the God-appointed purposes for man; it is not an institution to which men are to be blindly subservient.

In this talk, during which he reminded the Pharisees that David and his men ate the shewbread when they were hungry, Jesus affirmed the inviolability of the individual's right to utilize what his heavenly Father bestows on him. His whole life bore witness to a strong and unquenchable sense of individuality. He was the greatest individualist that has ever lived.

Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy teaches that man's individuality is his most precious and sacred possession, and that whatever tends to diminish, belittle, or obscure it is erroneous and is certainly not of God. Christian Science declares that man is idea, the compound idea of infinite Mind, God, Spirit, which includes all right ideas. Consequently man includes the right idea of government, state, church. Sabbath, law, order, perfection, health, harmony, and so forth.

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