Article September 28, 1918 Issue

Nothing, almost, seems to concern the man in the street...

The Christian Science Monitor

Nothing, almost, seems to concern the man in the street so little as the thought of God as the creator. Taking the evidence of his physical senses to be the universe which, he believes, originated in the distant past, creation is something so very far removed from him in time that he hardly gives it any serious thought nowadays. The subject is not at all of vital interest, so he reasons, in comparison with the tremendously important affairs of to-day,—it does not affect the stock market, nor the commerce of the world, and it seems to have little or nothing to do with war, pestilence, or calamities of any kind. Believing so thoroughly, therefore, in a universe of matter, the man in the street is usually callous to the demands of Spirit, especially when God is to be acknowledged as the only cause and creator.

The prophets and apostles of old were fully aware of the hardened heart of humanity on this very subject of creator, for all of these ancient seers magnified Deity as the one and only cause and particularly emphasized the great necessity of acknowledging God, good, continuously as the creator. The keynote was struck in the first chapter of Genesis and repeated with greater and greater emphasis throughout the Scriptures until there came the grand finale in the writings of John. "All things," he says concisely in his gospel, "were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

Now anybody can readily see that if creation was merely the deific fiat enacted thousands of ages ago, the instructions to remember the creator would have little if any real value for us to-day. Mrs. Eddy, therefore, rendered mankind an invaluable service when she brought cause and creation nearer to the apprehension of the world than it had ever been before, so that God, good, as the one and only cause, was seen to be of vital importance to the daily life of humanity. She says, for instance, on page 507 of Science and Health: "Infinite Mind creates and governs all, from the mental molecule to infinity. This divine Principle of all expresses Science and art throughout His creation, and the immortality of man and the universe. Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source." If creation is "ever appearing," if it expresses the immortality of man, and if, above all else, it expresses Science, then cause and correlative creation concern us to-day more than anything else with which we have to do.

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