Article October 10, 1959 ISSUE

NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD"

DONALD PEARCE

"BELOVED, now are we the sons of God" (I John 3:2). A shy and rather fearful little boy heard these words read at the close of the service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, to which he had been taken. He had understood little of the service, but these few words made a deep impression on him; they had a comforting and reassuring effect which he long remembered.

Do we, who regularly attend Christian Science services and hear these words read, week after week throughout the years, appreciate their full significance? Do we claim out sonship? Do we act as sons of God? Probably few can answer these questions affirmatively without some reservations. Yet to have given this statement so prominent a place in the Sunday services, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, must have regarded it as of paramount importance. Let us consider what sonship with God means.

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