THE Christ, revealed to-day by Christian Science, is fulfilling its mission as the Saviour of the world. It comes to seek and save that which, to human sense, was lost; and those who have felt its healing touch are echoing the words of the prophet, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Prophecy has been fulfilled in the manner of its coming. The Master foreknew that the Christ would appear to individual consciousness irrespective of environment, relationships, associations, or human experience, if the heart was prepared to receive it. He said of its coming: "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
To the average mortal the term "salvation" means present or future deliverance from fleshly ills and human limitations. But Christian Science imparts a higher and broader understanding of this great event. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 593) Mrs. Eddy gives the spiritual interpretation of the word "salvation" as "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed."
Every individual must set himself to the task of overcoming the false concept of existence; and in this work it is well to remember that each has an equal opportunity to claim his heritage as a child of God. The honest desire to express one's true selfhood and cast out of consciousness every carnal belief is indeed blessed of our heavenly Father; and this is prayer. Spiritual rewards come to us as increased understanding, hope, confidence, joy, unselfishness, love, compassion, righteous activity; and those who have experienced a measure of these blessings feel no regret in turning from the barren field of materialism and the monotonous grind of mortal beliefs. Though we may leave behind us in the field and at the mill those with whom we have been associated by reason of fleshly ties or material interests, this must not serve as an excuse to impede our progress.
