Article May 27, 1950 Issue

"BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD"

FRANKIE L. THOMAS

How emphatically James enjoins us to be "doers of the word." In the first chapter of his epistle we read: "If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."

The glass, or mirror, may be compared to divine Science, wherein we may behold our true selfhood. Man, as the offspiring of God, Spirit, is spiritual, incorporeal, inorganic. He reflects God. Man, as the perfect effect of perfect Mind, cannot manifest anything but perfection.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives us a wonderful view of the real man in divine Science. On page 475 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes, "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements." And she continues, "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he not physique." This view of man is the basis of metaphysical healing and true freedom.

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