Article March 31, 1917 Issue

The Divine Nature and Attributes

CARL E. HERRING

Earnest students of Christian Science have the incentive of a continual unfoldment of new and higher meaning in every passage of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and this awakened mentality leads to an equally exhaustless evolution of spiritual truth revealed in the Bible. As a corollary to this, such study reveals more and more the fact that the fundamentals of Christian Science are the eternal truths which were revealed to Moses and the prophets, and repeated in parables and demonstrated by Jesus, and taught to his disciples.

Paul's wonderful address to the Athenians on Mars Hill, which has been distorted into having for its primary purpose the prophecy of a judgment day and the resurrection of the dead, is in fact a radical exposition of the allness of God and an earnesst plea for obedience to the first commandment. He makes it plain that the world then as now was yielding obedience to the dictates of mortal mind and attempting to worship God, Spirit, in "temples made with hands." The fear of contagion, climate, heredity, has erected supposititious temples in which mortals bow down to health laws, utterly oblivious of the true God, who is the Lord of heaven and earth, or, as Mrs. Eddy says, "the eternal builder, the everlasting Father, . . . which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal belief destroy" (Science and Health, p. 428).

Instead of the oft repeated assertion that God is a person dwelling in some far off place, Paul declares Him to be ever present, near, and helpful,—"not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being." While Paul doubtless caught with clear vision the message that Jesus left of God's fatherhood, the same truth bursts forth in the words of the psalmist, "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" and the prophet Jeremiah echoes the same thought when he says, "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord."

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