Article October 6, 1951 Issue

"I HAVE REDEEMED THEE"

CAROLINE B. WINGERT

The human consciousness awakening to Truth is concerned with redemption, and rightly so. This concern should be a wholehearted desire to put God first in our everyday living.

According to a dictionary, "redeem'" means to liberate, or rescue from any liability to suffer by paying a price or ransom. What is the price to be paid, what is the ransom required, in order that men may find security and freedom in their present experience? Material-mindedness, human opinions and advice, however well meant, cannot reveal the divine plan of redemption. Redemption, or liberation from mortality, is found in the understanding of God. The price required is complete acknowledgment of and surrender to this spiritual fact. "Infinite Mind could not possibly create a remedy outside of itself, but erring, finite, human mind has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its redemption and healing," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 151 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Only the Christianity which Jesus taught and demonstrated can provide mankind with something beyond itself which will lift it up and out of the sin of believing in, serving, or fearing anything unlike God, good. For lack of knowledge of what Jesus so clearly understood, mankind has bowed in helplessness to the despotism of a suppositional power called evil. The price for redemption is paid as men give up their sense of life apart from God and find true manhood in Christ, Truth. Human nature must be redeemed, that the man of God's creating, free from the fetters of corporeality, may appear.

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