Article October 29, 1949 Issue

"RISE UP"

LESTER G.BESOLD

THE command to "rise" is a most important one to the student of Christian Science, and we find it appearing in both the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. This behest has deep meaning in the application of truth to the ills of mankind. Jesus' command to the paralytic at the pool of Bethesda was (John 5:8) "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk," and immediately he obeyed. Peter said to the cripple at the temple gate (Acts 3:6), "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." Then we are told that "he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God."

The human effort to stand up was not all that was required of these men. They needed also, through the Christ, to rise above a crippled sense of life and prove false the so-called material laws which they believed had held them in bondage for many years. This was accomplished through the clear discernment which Jesus and his disciple Peter had of God's omnipresent, omniactive law of perfection, which annulled every supposed law of matter or the body claiming to govern these men and immediately restored them.

To the writer several statements made by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" clearly show the spiritual import of these commands of Jesus and Peter. On page 391 she says, "Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them;" and later, on page 393: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man."

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