Honesty, or integrity of thought, Is necessary to the successful development of discoveries in any field. Static, hidebound thinking, loath to admit its unwillingness to advance when a new idea demands acceptance and active use, wraps itself in many reasons for preserving the status quo and refuses to respond to the beckoning finger of progress.
Where do we stand when new views of God beckon? In recent years the book "Honest to God" by the Bishop of Woolwich, England, raised a continuing and almost worldwide furore because of its challenging demand that the terms used for God be made meaningful for today.
Yet a century and more ago, Mrs. Eddy presented new and demonstrably true views of God. She had critics; and some of them have paused long enough to comprehend and so to praise this Science. Mrs. Eddy explains: "God is individual, incorporeal. He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence. He is all-inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual."Science and Health, p. 331;
