Editorial March 3, 1956 Issue

GOD'S WOMANHOOD

Helen Wood Bauman

When Mary Baker Eddy wrote the poem "Christ and Christmas" she had it illustrated in order to amplify her meaning. But there was opposition to this volume, because the public misunderstood it. Some clergymen objected to the illustrations, and Mrs. Eddy published an explanation which we now have in her book "Miscellaneous Writings." In this explanation she says (p. 33), "All clergymen may not understand the illustrations in 'Christ and Christmas;' or that these refer not to personality, but present the type and shadow of Truth's appearing in the womanhood as well as in the manhood of God, our divine Father and Mother."

This statement gives the profound keynote of our Leader's mission: Christian Science, which she discovered, reveals God and His Christ in their fullness—in their feminine as well as their masculine aspects. This revelation brings to light God and His idea in their completeness of nature. Now it is understood that whatever emanates from Deity expresses both the masculine and the feminine elements of Christliness.

Christ Jesus manifested the manhood or fatherhood of God by demonstrating the Father's will for the spiritual perfection of His Son. But Science emphasizes the motherhood of Love in its application of the truth of spiritual selfhood to all men. In the unfoldment to mankind of the Christ, the true idea of sonship, Christ Jesus became the individual, corporeal Saviour. But in Christian Science the Christ, Truth, is seen to be the universal, incorporeal Saviour. The tender ministrations of Science interpret the meaning of Jesus proof of spiritual sonship, and they reveal the full text of the truths which make universal salvation attainable.

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