ONE of the great needs of the hour, if not the greatest need, so the modern pulpit has found, is a rediscovery of God. It is not necessary to comment on this remarkable admission, except to intimate that the need is rather for a better understanding of God, a more spiritual conception of Him as divine Principle, -and a more demonstrable faith in His healing and redemptive power.
It may be true, as we recently read, that the great verities of the Christian faith require revaluation in order that Christendom may return to the simplicity of Christ's Christianity. But while that is excellent, — imperative, in fact, — more is required if men are to overcome those mortal passions which are tragic in their results, and establish in practice that the rightful normal status of man is in perfect harmony with God, his immortal Life. Stripped of all human accessories, the Christianity of the gospels is the expression of the great truth that communion and cooperation with God is every man's privilege and, in the ratio of his fidelity, every man's guerdon. This spiritual consummation is the product of repentance and an abiding, all-conquering faith. It is manifest in the opening of that mental world wherein spiritual selfhood is seen to be citizenship in the truth of being.
How beautifully practical and in accord with Love's nature this is, every Christian Scientist knows. For is not even the least demonstration of spiritual healing accompanied by a vision, faint though it may be, of God as omnipotent good? And does that not become a dynamic influence in one's life, consecrated as it must be to moral regeneration and the destruction of every falsity of belief which causes physical trouble?
