Editorial August 3, 1957 Issue

TRUE WORSHIP

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus once instructed a woman of Samaria in the meaning of true worship. He said (John 4: 24), "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The Master's frequent rebukes of the Pharisees showed his scorn of mere outward or ritualistic worship. His whole life was an illustration of worshiping "in spirit and in truth," and the standard of worship which he set was for all time.

When Jesus was going about his mission, healing the sick and sinful, destroying false law, and raising the dead, he was accomplishing far more than deeds of compassion, which any tenderhearted individual might long to do. By these deeds, he was worshiping the one God and was showing mankind that true worship is the demonstration of man's spiritual unity with his Principle.

Mary Baker Eddy recognized the demand for such demonstration, and her discovery of the Science of the Master's words restored to Christian worship the lost element of healing. She showed that passive piety, or the mere refraining from evil action, does not fulfill the Master's ideal of worshiping God; one must utilize good as law to overcome whatever is not of God, who is all good. To worship God "in spirit and in truth" is to prove by healing works such fundamental truths as the oneness and allness of God, the spiritual perfection of man, His likeness, the inseparability of Father and son, and the universal control of the divine will.

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