Article March 5, 1966 Issue

Our Duty to Mankind

EDNA MAY EVANS WHITE

The deep spiritual insight of the master Christian, Christ Jesus, enabled him to prophesy events that would come to pass in human history. The twenty-first chapter of Luke's Gospel includes one of these prophecies. It describes the upheavals and disturbances that we are seeing take place at the present time in world experience—wars and commotions, nation rising against nation, famines and pestilences.

One day as I was contemplating with some dismay the gloomy world news as depicted by the press, I recalled that this prophecy of the Master concluded with a promise. I turned to the account in the Bible, and this verse stood out as vitally important: "Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." Then followed the promise: "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." Was not the Master telling us that our redemption will draw nigh only as we obediently see the Christly man instead of sinning, warlike, destructive, ungodlike mortals peopling the earth, only as we behold the controlling, peaceful Christ governing all mankind, displacing and disposing of all destructive so-called forces of evil?

Each one of us is being redeemed or resurrected in the proportion that he welcomes and accepts the Christ, which reveals God's spiritual creation instead of mortal mind's false, illusive, pseudocreation, including war, pestilence, hatred, and fear. As one awakens to the fact that these errors are going on only in mortal mind and that God and His goodness are and always have been in perfect control of the univers, including man, one is being redeemed from false thought, false concepts, and he is at peace.

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