Article November 20, 1920 Issue

Our Abiding Place

ELSA F. ANGLE

Before awaking to the truth of being, through the teachings of Christian Science, we perhaps found little comfort in the statement from the Bible that "in him we live, and move, and have our being." In fact, believing in a corporeal God, as almost all of us have done, it may have seemed to us a sheer impossibility even to grasp it, and so we found ourselves supposedly shut out from this abode. But through the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, the key has truly been given to us to unlock all the treasures which have ever belonged to man in God's image and likeness, and so we are enabled to prove possession of our true and only home.

When we learn that God is divine, all-inclusive Mind, and man is His idea, we can perceive the glorious fact that man lives and moves and has true being in Him; because we know that in any sense no idea can ever exist outside of the Mind that conceives it, nor can it do otherwise than reflect that Mind. And these ideas being expressed are the only evidence of the existence of Mind.

All that emanates from divine Mind is divine, perfect, indestructible, since this Mind could have no idea unlike itself. This shows beyond a doubt that all that God created is "very good." All seeming evil conditions have their birth in mortal mind, which is a lie, since it counterfeits the only Mind, God. Being evil itself, it sends forth only beliefs of like qualities, which accounts for the apparent existence of sin, disease, and death. Mortal mind supposedly creates a mortal man, who in turn expresses all the qualities of that mind and has no part nor place in the true Science of being. God is Spirit, Mind, and man is His image and likeness, the expression of the divine Mind in which he has his origin and existence.

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