Editorial October 24, 1925 Issue

God Alone Exalts

Ella W. Hoag

Exaltation is a good word and brings to men the thought of something very desirable. There are few who do not hope sometime to attain the state which it implies. Indeed, multitudes are struggling to reach its lofty heights. Many, however, wonder why so much of disappointment attends their efforts. The difficulty is that the greater part attempt the ascent in the belief that it may be gained through self-seeking, while the truth is that no true exaltation can be won without absolute self-abnegation. All true exaltation belongs to God; consequently, there can be no exaltation for man except as his unity with God is demonstrated. Any belief of exaltation as apart from God, Spirit, is therefore but a false concept, which has neither entity nor substance, neither power nor law supporting it.

It, however, seems to take mankind a long time to learn that self-exaltation is not exaltation at all and always ends finally in abasement; that the pushing of one's self forward inevitably results at last in discomfiture and disaster. Because mistaken purposes and methods often appear to meet with temporary success, it seems necessary to have the lessons multiplied again and again before men awaken to see that all selfishness is totally undesirable and unsatisfactory, tending invariably to the final overthrow of the faulty temples erected on such unstable foundations.

Christian Science has come revealing God's immutable law that all that does not originate in and belong to Him must be brought to naught. Whatever does not redound to His glory, and His glory alone, must be seen as false, and consequently as insecure and in the last analysis as unreal. In other words, God alone exalts; and such exaltation can follow only as divine qualities are won and all that is unGodlike is relinquished.

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