Article February 2, 1952 Issue

LIVING CHURCH

IRENE KENT

When Peter, in answer to Jesus' query, "Whom say ye that I am?" replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt. 16:15, 16), he made a momentous and vital statement for all Christians. The Christ, which Jesus represented so fully to the world, was God's immortal idea, which the Christian Scientist seeks to manifest in his daily affairs. And it was upon this living idea, the Christ, that Jesus purposed founding his Church, that Church which Mary Baker Eddy defines in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 583), as follows:

"The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

"The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick."

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