Editorial January 6, 1951 Issue

THE CONSISTENCY OF THE CHRIST

Robert Ellis Key

In the realm of reality there is a spiritual consistency which ensures the appearing of every idea in its right order and for a good purpose. The teachings of Christian Science are logical and consistent. This consistency is a manifestation of the Christ, or Christ Science. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 242), "The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without seam or rent."

To worship a consistent God is to experience consistent good. The son of God is not eclipsed by a mortal mentality. The son of God is not remote or chimerical. The Apostle John declares (I John 3:2), "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." This surely is a glorious declaration.

Those who recognize the divine authority of the Scriptures cannot escape the conclusion reached by the apostle that we all have a divine nature here and now, even though we may not wholly recognize or demonstrate it. It will be noticed, for instance, that he qualifies his absolute statement by saying, "And it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." This qualification of the apostle's absolute statement that we are the sons of God does not detract from the value and extent of our divine sonship, which we are each capable of demonstrating. We learn of our sonship with God through the Christ, and in the Christ is to be found a spiritual consistency in both theory and practice.

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