Editorial February 18, 1967 Issue

The Greatest Cause

Helen Wood Bauman

Great causes produce great men and women. From time to time, when moral or spiritual demands have pressed the conscience of mankind, some individual has appeared who was willing to devote himself to clarifying the issues involved and to persuading people to work for liberty and righteousness. The demand for mental and spiritual freedom was great when Mary Baker Eddy appeared and discovered Christian Science. Now this Science is directing the race toward perfect freedom from the terrible injustices of the mortal sense of life through the demonstration of real existence in Spirit, God.

Mrs. Eddy knew the discipline of true greatness. In "Miscellaneous Writings" she makes this statement: "The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God." Mis., p. 340;

What is actually happening when some fine thinker comes to the fore is that the power of God, who forever asserts His presence and purpose, is influencing a receptive thought to represent the divine will. The moral or spiritual demand begins with God's influence. The strength of character needed to meet the demand comes from the same source. For God is the only Mind, as Christian Science reveals, the All-Mind, the Mind of man.

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