Article December 16, 1922 Issue

Remembering Our Creator

WILLIAM C. HENDERSON

To God, who is infinite good, there can be no knowledge of lack of any kind. Christian Science teaches us that it is such a consciousness that our creator, infinite Mind, has provided for His children. Lack implies loss, absence, forgetting. That which is called lack is, then, but a mortal belief that the Love which forever cares for its spiritual universe can ever forget its child's need. "Remember now thy Creator" is the simple yet effective recipe for the healing of every human ill.

If we forget the wholeness of Life and call ourselves sick, Truth speaks to us, "Turn ye, turn ye ...; for why will ye die ...?" and, remembering, we live. If we have so far forgotten God, who is the only Life, that we must have some one help us, the helper does for us what we are unable to do for ourselves: he contradicts the delusion that we have been separated from God, good. The practitioners of Christian Science Mind-healing are such helpers. They stand in loving willingness, ever ready to bring again to the forgetful the token of His power and presence. Self-forgetful, they remember their creator, that the aberrations of a dreaming world may cease.

Poverty is a forgetfulness of the true sense of substance. We call substance material, forgetting that real substance is unlimited, and always mental and spiritual. Need and supply are alike mental and spiritual; and a faithful remembering of this fact will so fill consciousness that abundance will be expressed. We grieve over the absence of loved ones, forgetting that in infinite Love there can be no separation. When we do remember this, then we know there is no absence, except to false material sense. The departure of the physical presence may sometimes give to the heart a keen sense of separation; but the highest love craves not the clasping of hands. It asks but the privilege of loving, and of recognizing love. Death cannot break the continuity of such love; nor can any of the lesser absences of human experience either sap its strength or mar its wholeness. The only absence is hate, — forgetfulness of Love. And if we were to look upon hate as a lapse of memory of good, would not the anger, malice, passion, greed, and so forth, which may be seeming so real in ourselves or in others, vanish? Would not our hearts be suddenly sunned with the light and warmth of divine Love? Christian Science teaches that this is what does occur at each overcoming of the temptation to believe in hate as reality.

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