Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-10-21
Service and Dominion


w tious disciples duke 22:2D,
81 am among you as he that serVeth,
he revealed the essential relationship
betw IN service and dominion. Ser
vice. ON the part of one universally
acknowledged to be master, Wouid
seem anomalous did not spiritual un-
derstanding discern their inseparaDle
nature.
according to the first chapter OF
Genesis, man, in the image and like
ness of God, has dominion-even over
all the earth. This declaration OF
truth, however, remains but an abb
stract statement until proved by DEM
onstration. In demonstration 1t soon
becomes apparent that the greater the
service rendered, and the greater our
understanding of the spiritual nature
of right service, the more scientific
cally do we prove our spiritual do
minion.
The meaning Of service became
elevated and ennobled recently In the
thought of one who, seeking in
well-known dictionary for defini-
ton of Servant" found amongst
other renderings, zone consecrated to
Cod" Because men are growing into
a better understanding of spiritual
values and proportionately relaxing
their tenacious grasp upon material
things, service is being recognized
more and more as the way to happi-
ness and progress.
When on that well-known occasion,
the Master, girding himself with
towel, proceeded to perform the hum
BILE service of washing the disciples
feet, he set seal of spirituality on
service which it can never lose. Inc
first thought of mortal mind under
like circumstances would be one OF
superiority to such an action. Yet
but little study shows how there SIM
ply could not be anything in mortal
thought superior to the spiritual
qualities which man-as Christ Je-
sus understood him-forever reflects.
OF our mortal selves we do nothing.
Mans true being is in God, and Ia
manifested in the reflection of the
Godlike qualities of love, kindness,
usefulness, activity, and service. In
short, in these qualities man express
q the divine Principle. The express
sion of God being ones chief end, 1t
Ia obvious that whatever the human
capacity may be, whether that OF
father, son, merchant, client, master,
or servant, one is endeavoring to
practice ones highest conceivable
concept Of spiritual service.
The history of many Bible charac-
tiers provides interesting illustrations
Of the inseparability of the spiritual
qualities of service and dominion. OF
Moses we read plumbers 12:3),
"Now the man Moses was very meek,
above all the men which were upon
the face Of the earth" Yet, who was
more active or more useful in true
service? And who, in the Old Tesla
ment, made a better demonstration
in leading, clothing, and feeding
Gods people than he? Moses served
and proved his dominion, because he
discerned that true power lies in the
reflection Of spiritual qualities, in
Guiding humility, which perceives
activity to be in divine Principle
alone. Did not the Way-shower him
self ask men to learn of him because
he was meek and lowly? And did he
not specifically promise that service,
as he served, would bring rest and
dominion? Because he knew no self
hood apart from God, his service
consisted of the continual reflection
Of spiritual being, full, active, un-
ceasing, ideal! :.
In Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures Up. - Mary Baker
Eddy writes, prayer, watching, and
working, combined with self-immola-
ton, are Gods gracious means for
accomplishing whatever has been sue
cessfully done for the Characterization
and health of mankind" So clear to
her was the revelation of the allness
Of Spirit, and of man as Gods spir-
itual expression, that she was led to
use the term "self-immolation" to
indicate the path which leads through
service to dominion.
Our goal is to fulfill the command
OF the Way-shower in preaching the
gospel, casting out demons, cleansing
1eprous thought. and doing today the
wonderful things he accomplished.
Such may be achieved only through
first proving in experience the per-
lection of God and man. Devotion
Is service in its truest sense. 1t con-
sists of the hourly elimination from
thought of the material and in prov
ing the superiority of the spiritual.
This is the service in which we in
deed "by love serve one another
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