Editorial May 21, 1979 Issue

Christ's compelling presence

Naomi Price

Sometimes, when Jesus' disciples performed some miracle of healing, they did so in their Master's name. Peter said to the congenital cripple at the Beautiful gate of the temple, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." Acts 3:6; And the man did at once, though he never had walked before.

The disciples had seen Jesus take charge in so many different situations. At the pool of Bethesda where he healed a man who had been infirm for thirty-eight years. See John 5:2-9; In the house of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, where the Master authoritatively dismissed the mourners who "wept and wailed greatly" at the bedside of a lifeless child. The Bible says he "put them all out," and they went, leaving the field free for him to change the sad picture of death into one of rejoicing in life. See Mark 5:38-42;

The Christ is a compelling presence in all ages. The true idea of God, when honored in our thought today, has supreme authority, and no evil can stand against it. We should never feel timid or doubtful in demanding that Truth be acknowledged as the governing influence in any situation. We can be assured, as the disciples were, that when we recognize the sovereignty of divine Principle and its law of harmony, every claim of discord must crumple and fall into oblivion before it.

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