LET US BUILD

EDNA E. FLANSBURG

The necessity for gaining an understanding of Jesus' teachings as a basis for true building is set forth by Mary Baker Eddy in all her writings. She says, for instance, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 269): "The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none." How grateful we should be that Mrs. Eddy has given to the world this textbook with its "Key to the Scriptures," which unlocks the treasures of the Bible to countless numbers all over the world!

Just as in the construction of a house we must follow the blueprints as they have been prepared to bring out the full sense of beauty, order, and symmetry, so we must follow to the smallest detail the great plan which our Father, the master Builder, has prepared for all spiritual building. Only thus shall we establish in our consciousness "a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (II Cor. 5:1), a house in which man, as God's spiritual idea, eternally dwells.

One building plan is given us by the Apostle Paul in the third chapter of his first epistle to the Corinthians (verses 11–16). Let us consider the foundation, the starting point in building. In the apostle's building plan we are assured that the foundation is Christ Jesus, and that none other can be laid. If our desires are to learn more of Christ, the true idea of God, through the study of Christian Science, to follow the Master's example of spiritual living and healing, we are laying an enduring foundation. Christian Science is the Science of Christianity, or provable knowledge of Christ, Truth.

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