OUR Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 259): "God is the law of Life, not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim." The infinitude of good is a vast theme on which to meditate; but there is none else real.
The oneness of God is a fact accepted by most religious bodies. In the Book of Common Prayer, the Nicene Creed commences, "I believe in one God;" but when there is an attempt to carry this belief into everyday life in conjunction with the First Commandment, how conflicting are the arguments which try to contradict the truth of this grand reality and make it appear hopeless to try to unravel the mystery of the one God! The claim of minds many gives forth laws and opinions which mankind feels it must obey and submit to, because the world says they are true, teaching that life in matter is God-given, and must be considered as such. Yet this is entirely contrary to the whole of Christ Jesus' teachings. He said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly;" and his example is shown in his works, which always manifested the nothingness of matter and the allness of Spirit. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life," said the Master; and we are told that at "that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." There is nothing more difficult for those who love the so-called gods of this world than to deny themselves and follow the Christ. If God is one God, Spirit, and "they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth," as Jesus said, matter and material laws can have no real power or life. It is only a false seeming which claims to be given to them by mortals who are in bondage to fleshly beliefs; and how can the physical senses give any idea of the reality of the life which is "hid with Christ in God"?
Christian Scientists are more grateful than they can ever express for what Mary Baker Eddy has revealed to them. In the midst of persecutions and untold difficulties she discovered the truth of the Science of being which she found in the Holy Scriptures, showing that the works of Christ Jesus, which proved God to be All-in-all, infinite and almighty, are a present possibility for all to accomplish.
