Article October 13, 1917 Issue

Mrs. Eddy, when she wrote on page 330 of Science and Health,...

The Christian Science Monitor

Mrs. Eddy, when she wrote on page 330 of Science and Health, "God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man," stated the basis from which Christian Science demonstrates that the resources of God are unlimited. The material world is quite oblivious to the fact. Look where one may, there is to be found the belief in limitation. Sometimes it takes the form of ill health, at another time it assumes the guise of poverty, while it frequently masquerades in the garment of evil, that darkened mentality which is simply the belief that good is not omnipresent.

Now Christian Science has come to enlighten mankind as to the true nature of God. Through knowledge of the truth which it reveals the sense of limitation will be broken for human beings and the infinite resources of God become available for them. To those who are oblivious to the true status of man, the position is analogous to the case of a man in bodily starvation who is living beside a locked room full of every provision suitable for human sustenance, with the key of the room in his possession, but who cannot open the door because he thinks the key has been lost. That is how it stands with every man who believes he is unable to avail himself of the abundance of good which it is in the power of God to bestow. He stands in gloom surrounded by the infinite riches of Spirit, as completely shut out from the use of them, through material belief, as if they were entirely locked off from his reach or infinitely removed from his grasp.

What, then, is the error which seems to produce the effect just described? It is the belief that God is not infinite in every one of the attributes of His being. Christian Science insists on the truth of the allness of God. Christian Science holds that no progress worth the name can possibly be made by mankind toward the utilization of the resources of God, until they have obtained a grasp of the divine nature as "the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul." God, Christian Science says, is the only real presence, power, or substance; and this being so, there exists no real material presence, power, or substance. Matter is unreal because Spirit is infinite; so-called matter is a false sense of reality, an erroneous belief of substance where substance is not.

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