Article December 27, 1913 Issue

Love's Endowment

ZONA BERG

God's perfect gift to man is man's unchanging perfection as His image and likeness. The Science of Christianity ascribes to God the origin of all that is good, and shows us that He is the creator of good only and that He made all "that was made." It is this joyous and inspiring fact of man's eternal sonship with God that makes the Christian Scientist so proverbially happy and free. He finds that since God is his Father, the giver of all good things, none of the supposed discords of material sense can have place in the true likeness of Him who "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Logically, then, the human belief in the existence of evil, that which can be no part of God's creation, is the basic error underlying all mortal troubles.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave out the somewhat startling injunction, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." This at once prompts the query, How is this possible? Christian Science replies: By knowing that God is infinite Mind, the source of all being, and that all His children, or ideas, are sustained, guided, and governed by Him; that there is no other source of existence than God, hence material existence is a false belief. Thus the way is paved for the perfect realization of true existence, which forever manifests the divine harmony.

St. Paul said, "Every man hath his proper gift of God." It is very comforting to know that every individual has his own particular gift or ability, for many may be led to believe they are worthless, good for nothing, because they suffer from some disability which seems to hamper their usefulness. As children of God we all have a work to perform, and no sense of error can operate to keep us from doing it. God's gifts are wholly spiritual, and they are best developed when consecrated to the work of helping men to know the truth of being, which annuls the sentence that would doom them to lives of uselessness. Many a man whose ability is not apparent, even to himself, needs but to be awakened to the truth about God and man. The belief that evil is a reality, precludes its destruction or elimination from consciousness, while the truth that good is all, when grasped by mortals, enables them to overcome the limitations and sins of the carnal mind.

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