Editorial December 21, 1957 Issue

LOYALTY

Helen Wood Bauman

Loyalty takes on new meaning when one finds that the origin of the word "loyal" is from the Latin "lex, legis," meaning law. According to the revelation of Christian Science, man is held by spiritual law in the perpetual position of loyalty to his divine Principle— God. But man is not the mortal who often behaves insubordinately to God's demands, disobeying His laws and flouting His authority. The mortal represents only a false sense of manhood.

One of the first statements of the Bible is that "God created man in his own image" (Gen. 1:27). And this great Book of Life was written to show all mankind the unfoldment of the truth of that statement and its full demonstration as law by the Master, Christ Jesus. The knowledge of spiritual man, who is as incapable of departing from allegiance to his original as the image in a mirror is incapable of departing from faithfulness to the object before it is the basis for proving true loyalty.

Mary Baker Eddy mentions her loyal students on page 50 of "Retrospection and Introspection." And she says,—"By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love." Our Leader did not require loyalty to her personality, but to the truths of being, which she faithfully revealed. She adjured the members of her Church to follow her only so far as she followed Christ.

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