Editorial April 25, 1964 Issue

The Commandment of Life Everlasting

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus had much to say about life because his mission was to destroy every phase of mortality and to show humanity how to demonstrate the Life that overcomes death. By his example and by the many healings he brought about he proved that our eternal life is linked with obedience to God.

Speaking of the Father, who gave him a commandment, what he should say and what he should speak, Jesus said (John 12:50), "I know that his commandment is life everlasting." And praying to God in behalf of his followers on the night of his arrest in Gethsemane, he said (John 17:3), "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

In order to obey God's commandment of life everlasting, we must know what that life is. The Master's statement that he must be known as one whom God had "sent" implied his preexistence or his eternal coexistence with the one Life, God. The Christ, being the true idea of sonship, as Christian Science reveals, includes every son of God, every identity in its eternal existence as Life's expression. Since Life knows no beginning and no ending, neither does its expression.

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