Editorial October 8, 1960 Issue

God's Universal Control

Helen Wood Bauman

It stands out compellingly in the life of Christ Jesus that he was constantly proving God's universal control. Although living under the rule of a foreign nation, confronted with suggestions of sin and mortality, beset by enemies, betrayed by friends, crucified through the rejection of his own people, Jesus never failed to prove Gods ultimate control of all. Christian Science shows that the Master's knowledge of Spirit's supremacy made him a law unto himself and gave him dominion over the illusion of an evil control that could enter his conscious experience.

Not casually did our Way-shower demonstrate this dominion, but devoutly, meekly, through prayerful communion with the source of power, addressed by him as "Father." Jesus was ever conscious of the kingdom of heaven, in which man exists in God's likeness, subject only to Love's will. Meeting the claims of the physical senses with the truth of God's ever-present control, the Master obliterated the evidence of a force opposing Love's government.

According to scientific Christianity, God's control is an eternal fact outside the reach of human ambition and the mad desire of mortals to rule. But the divine and beneficent control of God must be sought out by honest men and acknowledged as the only fact of being if it is to be reflected by human systems of government in just and enlightened ways.

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