Article November 5, 1904 Issue

The Motherhood of God

G. L. MC NEILL.

One of the blessings that follows the study and demonstration of Christian Science is the continual unfoldment, expansion, and elevation of our thought of God. Recently the study of the Lesson-Sermon brought to me a sense of the motherhood of God that has been very comforting and helpful to me, and I wish to share it with others.

I was brought up to think of God only as Father, and my conception of Him included those attributes alone which I ascribed to the ideal Father, including intelligence, wisdom, justice, power. In the Bible and elsewhere all reference to God is in the masculine gender, and largely through this fact, as well as on account of early training, we lose sight of God as Mother.

In our text-book and in the other writings of our Leader, we find God referred to as "Father-Mother," and yet the old thoughts cling to us so persistently that we are liable to overlook the significance of this newer designation of Deity and thus lose, to some extent, the comfort, peace, and helpfulness of including in our concept of God, the attributes of our highest ideal of mother as well as of father. To me, and probably to all of us, there is associated with the word "Mother" a sense of love, spirituality, tenderness, constancy, forgiveness, and protection that we do not so surely associate with the word "Father."

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