Article July 7, 1923 Issue

Capability of Achievement

MILDRED F. GOODCELL

Christian Science not only heals physical discord, elevates and ennobles character, overcomes sorrow and lack, but brings to light the possibility of accomplishment and achievement through the power conferred by man's heavenly Father, infinite Mind. The fact, as taught in Christian Science, that God is divine Mind, is of great help to mankind in enabling it to deny the belief of lack of ability or understanding, and to manifest the capacity for achievement.

Mrs. Eddy's declaration that God is Mind was at first ridiculed and scoffed at; since the leaven of Truth, which a woman took and hid in mortal thought, has been at work, it is no longer deemed strange to speak of God as Mind. How could it be, when it is self-evident that the creator of a thing must know the thing? God has created all things, from the least to the greatest of them; and, according to the first verse in the second chapter of Genesis, "the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." God has created, and therefore knows, all things; and that they are good is reiterated many times throughout the Bible. Thus we see that God is, indeed, infinite Mind, infinitely expressed or manifested; as our revered Leader writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

The "great First Cause," the loving Father-Mother of all, the creator of the entire universe, could be, and is, nothing less than infinite Mind, who knows all of His boundless creation, holding it in the "hollow of his hand." Let us consider here the meaning of the word "infinite." A definition given by Webster's New International Dictionary is: "Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; all-embracing; perfect; as the infinite wisdom and goodness of God." The following is something of the concept we gain of God when thinking of Him as infinite Mind: Mind without limit in power, without limit in the ability to act, without limit of might; Mind without limit in the capacity to know,—that is, without limit in the power of knowing ideas,—without limit in active spiritual power; Mind without limit in knowledge; Mind without limit in excellence, which means that God is unlimited in perfection. If such be some of the attributes of God, the creator, can we say that Mind could conceive of, create, or permit anything unintelligent, unworthy, or imperfect?

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