Article May 21, 1949 Issue

The high rule of conduct left by Christ Jesus is power for the Christian Scientist

THE FATHER'S BUSINESS

LILLIAN G. WINTER

A Lad of tender years asked his inquiring mother, who was anxiously searching for him (Luke 2:49), "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" The child Jesus must have recognized even then that his work was the Christly task of revealing the truth of being—perfect creator and perfect creation, as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis, for his questions and answers revealed an understanding which astonished all who heard him.

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature" (Luke 2:52). His increased wisdom found expression not only in the healing of great numbers who believed themselves incurable, but also in his teachings of the Sermon on the Mount.

So precious and important does she deem the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to students of Christian Science in daily living that Mary Baker Eddy in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 91) evaluates it as the diamond sermon. In this sermon the Master gave us the Golden Rule, that fundamental of all true business (Matt. 7:12), "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

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