Editorial November 28, 1925 Issue

God's Omnipresence

Ella W. Hoag

When Moses felt afraid to undertake the work God had given him to do, because he recognized his own inadequacy, he asked God whom He would send with him to help him. Then God said to him, "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest." This most wonderful promise which God made to Moses all men must eventually prove belongs equally to them. Every one must finally demonstrate that the fact of God's omnipresence is the solution of every human difficulty. Therein is the all-inclusive good which must be proved to be the annulment of every claim of evil.

The Christian Scientist accepts fully, at least from a theoretical standpoint, that since God is omnipresence there can be no other presence. He must, however, prove this true, since the suppositions of a mind and an existence in matter apart from God are constantly denying God's presence by claiming to argue for something exactly opposite to Him. In spite of this, however, God's presence continues to be infinite and all, and there is never a time when we cannot realize this presence and the power which goes with it.

Then it should make no difference to us what experience we may seem to be going through humanly, what the difficulty that must be overcome, what the dilemma from which we long to be delivered; in and through it all there is the fact of God's omnipresence—there He is to teach us all necessary lessons. Above all else, let us always remember that He is not only all-presence but that He is always all-acting. However insistently error may be claiming to produce all sorts of evil phenomena; however it may be seeming to vaunt itself, it has never done anything, is not doing anything, and never will do anything. God alone is acting, and His all-presence is but uncovering to the human consciousness all error that it may be reduced to its native nothingness.

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