Editorial April 12, 1958 Issue

LIFE'S REPRESENTATIVE

Helen Wood Bauman

In every circumstance one should remember that his very existence witnesses to the presence of God, for God is Life, and Life is manifested in individual being. Man represents Life. Of man made in God's likeness, Mary Baker Eddy writes (Pulpit and Press, p. 4), "His existence is deathless, forever unfolding its eternal Principle." She goes on to say: "Wait patiently on illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. Reflect this Life, and with it cometh the full power of being."

The purpose of Christian Science is not to prolong the belief of life in matter, but to teach men to reflect, by every Godlike quality, the Life that is deathless. One result of such reflecting is longevity; but immortality, not human longevity, is the goal of scientific Christianity. And with immortal good comes the dominion which God bestows upon His likeness. In the measure that one approximates the perfection of real manhood, he represents God.

When Christ Jesus instructed Nicodemus in the basic truths which underlie the healing power of Christ, Truth, he made a clear distinction between mortal consciousness, which represents the animal nature, and spiritual consciousness, which represents Spirit, or eternal Life. He said (John 3:6), "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

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