Editorial March 24, 1951 Issue

THE LIVING CHRIST

Helen Wood Bauman

The resurrection of Christ Jesus never loses the freshness and vitality of its lesson for humanity. The Master's proof of life beyond the grave released in that age and still releases spiritual power in those who grasp its implications, because it destroys in some measure the deadening fear of extinction which mortals entertain. But Christian Science reveals the deeper lesson that life never dies and that God is the immortal, sustaining Principle of all genuine being; that life is not in matter or held in its clasp.

By his words to Martha the Master set forth the ever-living, ever-present nature of Christ, Truth, and its redemptive, spiritualizing office of lifting humanity above the consciousness of matter into the glorious realization of life in Spirit. Jesus' victory over the cross still awaited him, yet he spoke in the present tense (John 11:25, 26): "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

Neither death nor sin can rob anyone of the ability and opportunity to spiritualize consciousness, to demonstrate man's sonship with God; and the consciousness which expresses that sonship is not subject to death. "The Christ, the individual embodiment of Truth, the real self, is knocking at the door of human thought, acting to destroy the pride of materialism, and no one can forever refuse to heed its voice.

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