Editorial October 19, 1968 Issue

Human Beings Reflect God

Helen Wood Bauman

If human beings could not reflect God, their lives would be empty and directionless, unhealthy and forlorn. But they can reflect Him, and they do so in the exact measure of their understanding of good and of man's relationship to God as His emanation.

To reflect God, men must realize the value of the divine nature, the blessings it brings. Then they must diligently rule out the smallness, hardness, greed, and self-justification of the carnal nature that would hide their sonship with God. When the divine nature is reflected by human beings, they have the power to overcome the sicknesses and the sins of mortals, for power and the divine nature are inseparable.

Christ Jesus gave the world a perfect example of the spiritual capabilities of the human self. Christian Science interprets what Jesus was doing, and it convincingly restores the healing power that accompanies Christliness. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: 'He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;' and 'These signs shall follow them that believe.^{ Science and Health, p. 52;}