Editorial March 7, 1959 Issue

THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Helen Wood Bauman

EVIL may claim to resist successfully the letter of Truth, but it cannot resist its spirit. Hence it is the spirit of Truth that Christians most need to develop. Isaiah prophesied of the Messiah (11:2), "The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." And he who came in fulfillment of that prophecy said (John 4:23), "The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth."

So filled with the spirit of Truth was Christ Jesus that the false, mortal consciousness, which holds within itself every expression of carnality, fled at his mental touch. The Master rebuked the Pharisees of his day for putting more emphasis upon the letter of the law than upon the spirit of it. And Christian Scientists need to guard against placing more trust in the letter of Science than in the spirit, which is its very essence.

When Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science, the law of God, which Christ Jesus had demonstrated with such great power, she saw that the spirit of Truth must accompany the statement of spiritual law if that same healing power is to be exercised. In founding the Christian Science movement, she gave expression to the mercy and love and justice that dominated her affection for mankind. She expected Christian Scientists not only to state the argument of Science correctly but to express the tenderness of the Christ, Truth, the Comforter, which the Master promised would come.

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