Article February 24, 1923 Issue

"Thy God thy glory"

HELEN FANSHAWE CARR

"THE Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." Ever since the prophet Isaiah stated this truth of such tremendous import to humanity, it has helped and comforted mankind; but the actual realization of it has sometimes seemed vague and far away,—a thing that might come to fruition only in the beyond, not in this present world. But the veil of material sense is being lifted, and the spiritual truth about God's universe is becoming more apparent; for Christian Science is making plain to all the way to claim the fulfillment of the promise of Isaiah, here and now.

The four concluding words of this verse are especially significant to the Christian Scientist, for he knows that only in the degree that he demonstrates God as his "glory" is he approximating the understanding of Christian Science. One of Webster's definitions of glory is, "The presence of the Divine Being;" and through the study of the synonyms for God which Mrs. Eddy has given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we are able to gain a clearer vision of this divine presence. No miner creates the gold he mines; he only uncovers and works the precious lode. So, as we seek only that which is Godlike, do we individually reflect in our lives that spiritual dignity and power which glorifies God through every human experience.

To glorify God means to pass out of darkness into the everlasting light of Truth, the light to which Mrs. Eddy refers when she writes in Science and Health (p. 504), "The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence." Truly, "the people which sat in darkness" are seeing a great light; and that light to this age is the revelation of Christian Science. Through this revelation the way has been made clear for the permanent establishment in each individual of all those qualities which reveal or manifest God. To have a true concept of God, as divine Principle, inspires unswerving loyalty to right. This brings into human affairs the demonstration of spiritual power, which glorifies God in every experience. Our Leader writes in "No and Yes" (p. 20), "As the divine Principle is comprehended, God's omnipotence and omnipresence will dawn on mortals;" and farther on she adds, "In divine Science, God is recognized as the only power, presence, and glory." If Truth, Life, and Love—divine Principle—be established in consciousness, we shall love our neighbor as ourselves; and to do so is an imperative need. Without it, all attempts to glorify God are vain.

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