Editorial February 9, 1957 Issue

MAKING WAY FOR GOD

Helen Wood Bauman

The practice of Christian Science begins with God and demonstrates the might of divinity breaking down stubborn beliefs of mortals. No one has so fully made way for the power of Spirit to act in human thought as did Christ Jesus, and consequently no one has displayed divine power to the extent that he did. He concluded his great prayer with the declaration which shows how complete his making way for God was (Matt. 6:13), "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever."

Christian Science reveals the presence of the divine kingdom, in which omnipotent Spirit is seen acting with absolute control. In this glorious realm every object of creation is a manifestation of Spirit, and harmony prevails. Here God is known to all; His nature is reflected by all; He is loved and obeyed by all. In this true kingdom, or kingdom of Truth, there is no element of resistance to the divine presence and power, no blind ignorance to block the light of good. If in mortal experience God seems not to be asserting His allness and might, the reason is that the mortal realm is suppositional. The situation is a myth, a fable, which disappears in the measure that it is recognized as suppositional and the admission made that divine Mind is fully and eternally present.

No one can deny that it is advantageous to yield thought to God and His power. With the appearing of that power in our lives come health and happiness, peace and right activity, the rejection of sin, and the abandonment of limitation. But to become conscious of God's kingdom, to prove His mercy and His government of all, we must practice self-immolation, put off false consciousness for the spiritual selfhood, which never leaves heaven, never loses the realization of man's unity with the Father. We must deny the illusion of material personality, which seems to obstruct true views of man and the universe. We must know ourselves as God creates us—spiritual and obedient to His will.

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