Article May 15, 1909 Issue

"NO CONDEMNATION."

G. HARRIETTE BLAKE

It is St. Paul who says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." The Master had said, before this, "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." The teaching of Christian Science gives a very beautiful meaning to these quotations. The impersonal Christ, the stature of the perfect man, being our standard, "there is ... no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,"—to those, in other words, whose lives measure up to the divine standard. In so far as we fall short of it, the standard itself, while remaining firmly in its place, becomes the judge, pointing sternly, implacably to the distance between our achievement and the perfect requirement. "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son."

Jesus the Christ, after trials innumerable, attained the goal of perfect demonstration, and for sorrowing humanity's comfort and encouragement he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; ... because I go unto my Father." When our thought rises to the spiritual altitude of the Father, we also shall attain to the standard of the perfect man. In the meantime we need not be discouraged by our failures, nor become utterly overwhelmed by human condemnation, knowing within ourselves, as no one else can know, how earnestly we are working and how sincerely we desire to be faithful until the day when we shall "all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

Not in the blare of trumpets are the fruits of victory bought,
Not midst the people's plaudits is the nation's welfare wrought,
Not in the workshop's turmoil is the wireless wonder thought,
Not in the gay world's glitter are the gleams of Spirit caught,
But in the secret closet, where immortal Truth is sought.

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