Editorial March 22, 1947 Issue

Man's Only Relative

Paul Stark Seeley

The thought that each individual has but one relative and that one perfectly satisfactory in every respect and under all circumstances would seem to most mortals too good to be true. Yet such is the case in the only real order of existence—the spiritual order.

Who is this one and only relative? God, the Life, the Mind, the Soul, and the substance of man. Mary Baker Eddy says on page 151 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician: He is man's only real relative on earth and in heaven. David sang. 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.'"

The wide variety of problems arising from unhappy human relationships constitute a large segment of the troubles of mankind. The antidote for all, Christian Science reveals, is the provable truth that man is spiritual, not material, is God's son, and has in Science no other relative than his Maker. One meaning of "relative" is "related to, or connected with, each other." Because God is the infinite and only Life, Mind, and substance of man, is there aught else for man to be "connected with"? To be sure, all of God's ideas—Mind's full expression—are related to one another, but this relatedness is wholly of God's doing and is found and humanly evidenced only in the degree that God as the sole source, Life, substance, and relative of man, individually and collectively, is realized.

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