Article August 11, 1951 Issue

"IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST?"

MARJORIE C. MULOCK

MARY BAKER EDDY, writing of the Christ in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says (p. 333): "Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love."

Abraham's glorious glimpses of the Christ enabled him to leave his homeland and go out to a far and unknown country and there to establish a great nation—enabled him to put his love for God and his obedience to God above even his love for his only son. As we read this moving story in the Old Testament, we find Abraham willing to sacrifice this son, if that were the will of God. However, a clearer concept of God enabled him to realize that God's will for his son was not death, but life.

Jacob experienced a most glorious glimpse of the Christ as he was returning to his home country and, after years of estrangement from him, to the brother whom he had greatly wronged. After a night of wrestling with fear until the angel thought of Love blessed him, he met his brother with great tenderness and love, saying to him (Gen. 33: 10), "I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me." Jacob's concept of his brother had been illumined by the Christconsciousness. Esau, his brother, also experienced love, forgiveness, and generosity, and the brothers were joyously reunited.

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