Article December 22, 1956 Issue

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING BRINGS RELEASE

LUCETTE S. RAGSDALE

Christian Science, God's revelation to Mary Baker Eddy, shows us the true nature of God and of man, His spiritual image, and thus awakens us from the dream of sickness, sin, fear, sorrow, and death. In "Miscellaneous Writings" our inspired Leader says (p. 16): "We must learn that God is infinitely more than a person, or finite form, can contain; that God is a divine Whole, and All, an all-pervading intelligence and Love, a divine, infinite Principle; and that Christianity is a divine Science. This newly awakened consciousness is wholly spiritual; it emanates from Soul instead of body, and is the new birth begun in Christian Science."

Let us contemplate some of the ways by which Christian Science brings release to mankind. It unveils the inspired Word of the Bible and reveals it as our guide to eternal Life. It dispels ignorance by presenting God as the loving Father-Mother, nourishing, sustaining, and protecting all His vast spiritual creation, including man.

Christian Science destroys fear because it assures us of the all-pervading presence and power of God, divine Principle, whose ever-operating laws error cannot resist, delay, or reverse. It makes clear the important truth that the Christ-idea has been expressed in some measure by the spiritually minded of all ages. Thus this Science discloses the real mission of the human Jesus as our Way-shower, whose sinless career and demonstration of the Science of being we are all privileged to emulate insofar as we apprehend it.

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