Article November 24, 1956 Issue

MAN'S DIVINE ROYALTY AND AUTHORITY

SADIE GREENMAN WOODARD

As a worthy son emulates the virtues of an esteemed human parent, so Christ Jesus exemplified his heavenly Father's qualities. In Jesus' nature there was no place for self-righteousness, self-glorification, self-justification, resentment, retaliation, estrangement. Because of his demonstration of Godlike consciousness, he heard at the beginning of his sublime career those precious words assuring him that he was God's beloved Son. In the three years that followed, his God-endowed sway was felt in the healing and redemption of multitudes.

Explaining the Master's great triumphs over malice, disease, want, tempest, and even death, Mary Baker Eddy states in her work "No and Yes" (p. 36): "The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life, and harmony. Hence the human Jesus had a resort to his higher self and relation to the Father, and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being,—holding the mortal as unreal, and the divine as real."

Healing and deliverance from countless phases of evil are experienced today through the way of Christ, revealed in Christian Science. Accepting the Master's teaching of divine sonship that each person, in his real being, is the son of God, many people are finding health instead of disease, abundance in place of lack, success rather than failure, happy relationships displacing discord, joy dispelling sorrow, and life where death seemed imminent.

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