Is anyone really satisfied to be a prisoner of time and place, of finite quantities? God made man as His expression of His own infinite being. Isn't this the very opposite of the mortal, limited, material concept of humanity? How much freer we are when we accept Mrs. Eddy's ringing declaration that "as an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good"!The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165;
Isn't it comforting to realize that instead of being a little, isolated, precarious piece of organic matter, each of us is actually identified by divine goodness with universal good? It is clear, then, that insofar as we express good, no harm can ever really come to us, for God is the source of that good. Reflecting good, we can never lose anything, nor can we ever be incapacitated or disabled or lacking, for we are not made up of finite quantities, of measured, and merely personal, attributes. Our experience cannot be limited by finite quantities or by varying degrees of goodness.
"God is one. The allness of Deity is His oneness,"Science and Health, p. 267 Mrs. Eddy tells us. With this tremendous statement in Science and Health she bursts the shackles of time, place, and finity. By it, the Discoverer of Christian Science challenges the world to a higher understanding of the true nature of being, of God and man and the universe.
