Article January 13, 1912 Issue

THE ALLNESS OF PRINCIPLE

ADELAIDE F. ROLLINS.

So many times we hear it said, "I cannot get the right idea or concept of God as Principle." One of the first things to be learned in Science is that God is "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" (Science and Health, p. 587). On this same page we find the definition of good as "God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action;" therefore, God and good are synonymous, and it is many times much clearer and easier to substitute the word "good" for God and in that way get away from the thought of God as the name of a person. In other words, we start in Christian Science with God as the Principle of good, or divine Principle.

Do we ever stop to think what it is that makes the earth revolve on its axis? What it is that causes the stars to shine or the moon and sun to give forth their reflected light? "Why, God," most people would reply. Yes, but is their concept of God and His universe the right one? Christian Science teaches that God, the ever-acting, divine Principle, creates all things spiritually. Divine Principle always has been, is, and always will be, "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." In Luke's gospel we are told of the birth of Christ Jesus. As the record tells, he was born of Spirit; therefore he was started forth in the world with a clearer and higher perception of spiritual things than any other. He grew to manhood with that spiritual insight or perception which none others have had to the same extent or degree.

With us all, however, is some sense of the governing Principle, of right; but, as we matured in the flesh,—until we came into Science,—we matured according to the supposed laws and beliefs of materiality; we grew to know good and evil alike through material sense, and in many instances followed that which pleased us and gave us the best result from our human standpoint, regardless of its being right or wrong from the standpoint of Principle. As Jesus grew up, he naturally followed that which was to his high spiritual sense good. He recognized the fact that his Father was God, good, and he firmly trusted in divine Principle, and so made his many demonstrations. It is our brithright and privilege to recognize and accept the same Father or God, the same Principle of good to govern us; and as we do this we shall be less and less allured by the temptations which come to mortal sense. Christ Jesus said, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

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