Article September 22, 1917 Issue

"Our Father-Mother God"

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY

A YOUNG student of Christian Science had reached a certain milestone along the heavenly pathway. She saw that before she could proceed much farther she must learn to differentiate between evil and the person manifesting it. Then, too, her practitioner had told her that since God does not know or see evil, neither does man, God's reflection, know or see it. How could this be? she wondered. How could God heal anything if He did not know about it? And how could He help seeing evil, when every one else saw it so plainly?

These were grave questions, especially for one whose concept of God had been inherited from a long line of ministers who had seemed to take delight in thundering forth threats of divine vengeance upon the heads of trembling and terror-stricken congregations. In fact, she lingered in the vicinity of this particular milestone for some time, for she could not seem to pass it, though she would not go back. Her constant prayer was for understanding, and when that prayer was finally answered it came about in a most unexpected way, as answers to such prayers usually do.

She had not then grasped the deep import of the words on page 16 of Science and Health, "Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious," but one day she went to call on a friend. It was a sultry midsummer afternoon, and the shaded porch was most comfortable. Just as she was leaving, the small son of the family came in, hot, tired, sunburned, and tear stained, and climbed up into his mother's arms. That he had been making mud pies was evident; indeed the stick with which he had been mixing them was still tightly clasped in one chubby hand, but his mother did not seem to see it. She caught him to her heart, regardless of her dainty dress, and covered the grimy little face with kisses.

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