Editorial November 1, 1952 Issue

THE CALL OF THESE LATTER DAYS

Robert Ellis Key

When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come he told them that the kingdom of God is not a localized habitation. He said (Luke 17:21), "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, to there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Jesus went on to tell them that just as it was in the days of Noah "even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."

Turning to Genesis, we find the sixth chapter opens with a description of the inhabitants of the earth in the days of Noah. In this description the spiritual and the material seem to mingle, and this condition is condemned by God. Noah and those with him in the ark, however, were found worthy to escape destruction.

The word Noah is defined by Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 592), as, "A corporeal mortal; knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all that is spiritual." Noah was a just man; he found grace with God; indeed, he walked with God, as we are told in the Scriptures. His close communion with God gave him spiritual discernment. He was instructed to build an ark, enter it, and remain there until the flood had subsided. He was obedient to God in every particular, and he and his family and the essential creatures of the creation which were with him in the ark were saved from destruction.

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