Arizona republican., 1919-11-24
SALVATION
written for The Christian Science

salvation. 1t is generally admitted, to
be sure that God is the author of sal
walton, and that Christ Jesus brought
TO men a salvation that is to be realized
after death. Long before the advent
of Jesus the Christ, however the =.
Psalmist had sufficiently grasped the
meaning of existence to discern that
salvation must save from death itself.
He that is our God" he declared, lis
the God of salvation: and unto God the
Lord belong the issues from death.
Naturally, only a common understand
ing OF God could establish anything
like unity of thought concerning the
plan and process of salvation; and.
wanting this common understanding OF
God, the human concepts of salvation
have been as vague and various as are
the innumerable false concepts of God.
When Mrs. Eddy. therefore. discov
cred the truth and law of being which
she named Christian Science, she saw
that the fundamental error of human
ity lay in its corporeal sense of God
and man; and, by revealing God as
divine Principle and man as spiritual
idea in divine Mind, she disclosed the
process of salvation as one of removing
the false sense of material existence
and reinstating the original and true
sense of spiritual being. She analyses
the human confusion on this subject
and shows the remedy for it, when she
writes on page 2S5 of Science and
Health with Key to Scriptures: 'By
interpreting God as a corporeal Saw
Jour but not as the saving Principle,
or divine Love, we shall continue to
seek salvation through pardon and not
through reform. and resort to matter
instead of Spirit for the cure of the
sick. AS mortals reach, through knowl-
edge of Christian Science, a higher
sense, they will seek to learn, not from
| matter, but from the divine Principle.
! God, how to demonstrate the Christ
Truth, as the healing and saving
power
| Because the human sense of man is
as false as is the corporal concept ofi
| God, men have very generally failed to
see that the essential lesson of Christ
Jesus career was his revelation and
demonstration of spiritual man in the
likeness of God Having therefore
concluded that Jesus the Christ was,
especially endowed with a power that
no other man was supposed to realize
humanity proceeded to evolve the
| theory of vicarious atonement, where
by men could escape the penalties for
their sins by believing on him Who
| through a contravention of human law
| had proved himself to be the Son of
| God. That this theory has been per
nicious and stultifying is shown in the
utter inability of the vast majority of
Jesus protested followers to do the
works which he said they who believed
on him should do. His early followers
were sufficiently awakened by his
teachings to see and accept their indi-
!. vidual responsibility for demonstrating
spiritual mans authority over sin, dis
ease, and death, and Paul, in his later
:. Illumination acknowledged that the
same process of salvation, through
which Jesus the Christ overcame the
; entire false sense of moral existence,
must operate in exactly the same
manner in individual consciousness to
save each one from the material sense
of life. Therefore he said, Work out
your own salvation with fear and
trembling. For it is God which work
eth in you both to will and to do of his
good pleasure"
| Spiritual man is eternally safe in
divine Principle. The false sense of
material existence is not preserved
but destroyed, by learning this spir-
itual fact, and man in Gods likeness
then appears as the only man The
| human being gains salvation through
divine Principle. exactly in proportion
as he ayails himself of the efficacy of
Truth and abandons false belief He
must himself know, in his own indi-
| vldual realization, that God is omnipo-
tent and that the consequent impo-
fence of sin leaves him free to forsake
1t. Thus it is that he learns the init
n1ately practical meaning of salvation.
which Mrs. Eddy explains when she
3 writes on page 1913 of her "Miscellane-
: Gus Writings The at-one-ment with
Christ has appeared-not through vi
carious suffering, whereby the just
; obtain a pardon for the unjust,--but
through the eternal law of justice;
wherein sinners suffer for their own
sins, repent, forsake sin love God. and
keep His commandments, thence to
. receive the reward of Righteousness !:
! salvation from sin, not through the
death of a man, but through a divine
Life, which is our Redeemer.'
Salvation being, as it is. a process
of publication from materiality. it is
useless to suppose that it can be de-
layed indefinitely and then suddenly
acquired at the moment of supreme
fear which mortals call death, or that
1t can be gained by merely believing
on one who purified and spiritualized
.. MS own thought TO the point of over
, coming sin, disease and death. 1.-The
grace of God that bringeth salvation, -
Paul declared, hath appeared to all
men, teaching US that, denying ungod
illness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly. righteously, and godly, in
this present world" It is therefore
Just as obligatory upon each indi-
vidual to live life OF purity, of health
!. and holiness, in this present world, as
!. it was upon Jesus of Nazareth; and il
is equally as possible for every one to
do so in the exact proportion that the
a Mind of Christ is gained.
), The sinner knows that God is his
[, only refuge from sin; but, be1evine
. that sin is q, reality, he not only fears
, the power of sin, in which he MAY
: think he finds pleasure, but he also
9 fears his concept of God, before whom
: he thinks he stands accused. The sicB
= fear the power of disease, and also
!, fear the false concept of Cod since
a they have been taught to believe that
y God has willed or permitted sickness
4 The sinner, the invalid. and the sor-
row-laden need to know Gods omnip-
otence, His presence, and His love;
&, the false sense pleasure in sin ther
= disappears in the realization that gooc
q is infinite; sickness vanishes as al
y illusion of material sense; and sorrow
loses its seeming justification for sal
h walton means loving God so supremell
: as to become like God. like good; an(
!, this is mans present and eternal bliss
for it is his deliverance from all tina
4 is unlike God.
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