Article November 7, 1953 Issue

THE SUBSTANCE OF ALL

ADELE BLOK

The great and far-reaching fact of the allness of God, good, is again discerned and demonstrated today, thanks to the discovery and founding of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy. Lifting her eyes above and beyond material sense testimony, this great investigator of Truth was able to discern that all real being is in Spirit and that consequently material existence with its distressing factors of sin, sickness, and death is no more than a substanceless picture of mortal thought, devoid of actuality, which can only seem real to the unenlightened human mind.

Isaiah gave us God's message (45:22), "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." With her inspiring definition of God in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 587), "God. The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence," Mrs. Eddy has made it possible for us to look to Him and be saved. For it is through beholding the nature of omnipresent Being as described in this definition that we lose our fear of and belief in that which is unlike God.

Through our efforts to demonstrate Christian Science we learn valuable lessons. The First Commandment (Ex. 20:3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," becomes illuminated. It is seen to include our protection from being deceived into accepting, as real, material circumstances and conditions, which Spirit never made. As God is All, there is not really anything beside Him. The way, then, to overcome difficulties of every name and nature is to see that in truth they have no real existence. Following the counsel in Isaiah and looking up to God in the light afforded us by Christian Science, we shall find that His all-pervading presence has left no space for trouble to fill. The need, therefore, is not primarily for a personal effort to change, improve, or destroy the evidence before the material senses, but to resist the temptation to believe in any or all of its aspects as real. When, together with the belief in the reality of an illness, the physical disorder disappears before the realization of the spiritual fact regarding that condition, this proves that the belief and the material evidence of it are one and the same thing.

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