Article April 3, 1920 Issue

His Right Place

HUGH STUART CAMPBELL

Christian Science confirms the Scriptural statement that immortal man is the infinite expression, idea, or image of God. "So God created man in his own image," we read in the inspired first chapter of Genesis, and as if to emphasize the momentous completion of spiritual creation, the record further states that God beheld all that He had made and pronounced His work "very good." "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." The universe of Mind with its identities, which embrace all substance, involves the changeless, the complete unfoldment and emanation of immortal wisdom and Love. If spiritual man is the impeccable and all-inclusive idea, or image, of God, then he must include and embrace all creation. Since it is impossible to separate cause from effect, then God, the one and only cause, cannot be divorced from man, the effect of this great creating cause. The real man not only partakes of the quality and essence of his Maker but he is indissolubly united in harmonious relationship with all the ideas which are included in the realm of infinite Mind. Thus the ideal man is not only the right or true idea of God, but he is eternally in his right place in the universe of Spirit. Paul, preaching to the Athenians, defined man's real environment to be in Mind when he said, "For in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." God who is Love, and immortal man who is loving, are coexistent in Truth.

Christian Science reveals God's universe as complete and demonstrates the divine power which Deity imparts, through the operation of spiritual rules founded on perfect Principle. It is anchored upon unerring and unchanging law. Truth, which pervades its statements, is absolute. The fact that the human miscalled mind cannot comprehend spiritual man nor cognize his infinite Principle, does not disprove the infallibility of Principle, nor lessen man's immortality. Neither does this hinder his ability to be holy. When the understanding comes to a man that Mind is all and supreme, and that God's spiritual universe is the only reality,—understanding obtainable through the study of Christian Science,—he acquires the conscious birthright of dominion promised in the Bible, is lifted above the false teaching of creeds, and begins to see the things of God, good.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in revealing to humanity the orderly operations of the Science of being, begins and ends her comprehensive system of metaphysics within the infinity of spiritual reality. Her system of Christian healing admits of no divergence from absolute Truth. The one infinite God, good, is acknowledged as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Science relegates to oblivion material creation and mortal existence. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy, it would seem, completely covers the question of man's origin and his sonship with Deity when, with a sublime word picture, she writes (p. 520): "Unfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough! Human language can repeat only an infinitesimal part of what exists. The absolute ideal, man, is no more seen nor comprehended by mortals, than is his infinite Principle, Love. Principle and its idea, man, are coexistent and eternal."

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