Article February 18, 1950 Issue

"CHRIST NEVER LEFT"

MILTON SIMON

Christian Science reveals Christ to humanity. The enlightenment one needs is always with him. The Christ, the ideal Truth, which confers perfect enlightenment, is in a degree present in the consciousness of each one of us. Because it confers perfect enlightenment, the Christ must always be victorious. No darkness or materiality can withstand the light of Truth. In God-illumined consciousness there is no resistance to the recognition of man's present spiritual perfection and its immediate evidence. While to human apprehension the Christ continues to appear, it can never actually be absent. In the immortal words of Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 180), "Christ is Truth, and Truth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour."

It is the mission of the Christ to cast out error and disease, and it does so today just as it did in Jesus' time. Since a human difficulty is only wrong thought externalized, the true, spiritual idea entertained brings freedom by destroying the incorrect concept. In any situation the Christ, the true idea of God, is present to heal and save.

More than twenty-five years ago a party of seven were out on a large lake late one afternoon in an old-type motorboat. This craft had a disappearing propeller which could be pulled into the boat, thus permitting it to be drawn up on the shore. Such a dense fog settled on the lake that the occupants of the boat, being unable to see, had to stop the engine and drift. Soon after darkness had set in they felt water rushing into the boat. The propeller shaft had fallen out, leaving a hole in the bottom of the boat. All were panic-stricken except a little girl who was present. "Why, Mother," she said with great assurance, "we know that nothing can deprive us of divine protection." This truth had been taught the child by her mother, and the child had committed it to memory.

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