Article May 30, 1953 Issue

"THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW"

MARGARET MORRISON

That tender, holy, and most profound prayer of Christ Jesus, his sacred communion with God as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of St. John, is worthy the consecrated study of all mankind. In it we are told what constitutes eternal life, and it contains the fundamental truth of God and man, their inseparable unity and the glory which is man's as the everlasting expression of his creator, divine Mind. The spiritual understanding of this prayer and obedience thereto will heal all the ills of humanity individually and universally.

In this prayer there is found repeated a plea which may well be the key to Jesus' life of love and healing work (verse 23): "That the world may know that thou [the Father] hast sent me." This cry of their Master should find a quick response in the heart of every Christian Scientist, for was it not the tender yearning of their dauntless Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that the world might know that the truth she revealed through Christian Science is the promised Comforter? On page 464 of the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," speaking of the time and labor required to establish Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy says of herself as its Discoverer and Founder, "She therefore remains unseen at her post, seeking no self-aggrandizement but praying, watching, and working for the redemption of mankind." Then is it not the true purpose of the student of Christian Science that, through his glorifying of good in his individual living, the world may know that Christian Science has, indeed, come from God the Father, and that He is to be recognized as the divine Principle of all true existence?

Proclaiming his pre-existence and coexistence with God, Jesus prayed (John 17:5), "Glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." "Glorify thou me with thine own self"! May we not take this to mean with Thine own nature, with the eternal, indestructible qualities and ideas of divine Mind, God? And do not these divine ideas and qualities constitute the substance, intelligence, life, and full being of man, inseparable from his divine source?

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