Editorial April 2, 1949 Issue

CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR

Helen Wood Bauman

In appealing figure, John the Revelator pictures Christ as a guest knocking at the door of human consciousness and saying (Rev. 3:20), "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." The eternal presence of Christ, the impersonal, universal Saviour, is made clear by the teachings and demonstrations of Christian Science.

Two points in the scientific explanation of the saving Christ stand out strikingly: first, the fact that Christ is God's divine ideal, His beloved Son, tenderly embraced in the Father; secondly, the transforming, or saving, effect of God and His Christ upon the so-called human mind, correcting and enlightening it with the truth of being and leading it to give up all belief in a mortal sense of existence. Christ, the saving action of Truth, reaches mankind by rousing the spiritual element in human consciousness to awaken to the full recognition of man as God's sinless, incorporeal idea and to come, as Paul writes (Eph. 4:13), "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

Christ Jesus understood his spiritual individuality, or selfhood, to be God's image, the Christ, and because of this true identification of himself he was not limited by the flesh or by any impression which the physical senses entertained. His comprehension of his perfect selfhood and of the nothingness of the flesh made Christ immediately apparent and brought to sinful and suffering humanity the divine touch of Spirit, which dispels the dream of life in matter. The Christ, his real individuality, conscious only of God and His ideas, saved him from the illusions of the material personality which seemed to be his own.

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