Article November 19, 1910 Issue

The world is accustomed to employ words without weighing...

E. M. Ramsay

Kilmacolm (Scot.) Advertiser

The world is accustomed to employ words without weighing accurately their meaning, and, especially in matters of religion, is wont to uphold views which closer scrutiny reveals as mutually destructive. It is the object of this little article to show how Christian Science unfolds the fundamental statements of Christianity, thereby correcting erroneous impressions and giving us so firm a grasp of the true meaning as to enable us to use these spiritual facts in the affairs of every-day life. Let us take a statement to which all Christians would subscribe, "God is infinite," and see how it can be unfolded for us.

We are all aware that infinite means without bounds or limits, that which has no beginning and no end—all. Our Lord tells us that God is good, the only good, therefore we accept the statement that God is infinite and good. If He is infinite and good, it follows that God is infinite good; thus infinite good exists. Again we are told in the Scriptures that God is ever present. This clearly must be so, since the infinite, unbounded All can never be absent. If God could ever be absent, He would cease to be infinite. Thus infinite good is ever present. Our Master further describes God as merciful, perfect, true, holy; tells us that God is Spirit, Life; speaks of His love. If this be so, then perfection. Truth, Spirit, Life, Love must each and all be infinite, as God is in His very essence infinite. If each of these is infinite, it follows that they are synonymous, that they are simply different aspects of the same thing, that they are interchangeable terms. Thus we find that Truth and Love are one, that Life and Spirit are one, that Truth and Life are one. Infinite Life, infinite Truth, infinite Love, infinite Spirit are ever present.

What, then, of man? What relationship do we hold to this infinite good which we call God? In the 1st chapter of Genesis we are told God created man in His own image. If this be a true statement, then man is the image or likeness of good, the image of Truth, of Life, of Spirit, of perfection. Then all in our thought which is not like good, Truth, Life, Love, Spirit, perfection, is not like man. Turning to the New Testament, we find our Lord telling his followers to be perfect, "as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," and St. Paul says to the Athenians, "In him [God] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring."

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