Editorial June 25, 1949 Issue

"CRYING, ABBA, FATHER"

George Channing

Every individual in his true selfhood is of the household of God. He is a son eternally welcome to private communion with his divine Father and privileged in that communion to be enriched by evidence of the Father's unlimited love. This happy relationship, revealed as spiritual fact by scientific Christianity, or Christian Science, becomes vivid reality to anyone who entertains the spiritual desire to feel and know it as such.

Mortal mind, the supposititious antipode of God, divine Mind, orphans its offspring, mortal man. It conceives him in terms of illusion outlined as limitation and then claims that God is the father of its false conception. Thus in supposition it sets up the sense of a deserted and forlorn man. This sense of mortal selfhood never really existed and never can exist. As mortal sense, but not as mortal man, it is destroyed by immortal sense, which brings the true man into view where mortal man had appeared to mortal sense to be.

Of this so-called mortal man and the need for displacing and replacing him by the revelation of one's true selfhood, Mary Baker Eddy, who gave Christian Science to mankind, has written with deep insight in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 86): "Note well the falsity of this mortal self! ...Cleanse every stain from this wanderer's soiled garments, wipe the dust from his feet and the tears from his eyes, that you may behold the real man, the fellow-saint of a holy household."

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