Editorial November 28, 1925 Issue

God's Plan

Albert F. Gilmore

A common characteristic of mortals is to plan for the gaining of what is thought to be necessary to insure prosperity and happiness. Setting before themselves this goal, the attainment of which it is believed will bring success and satisfaction, they proceed to satisfy their desires. The motive of life thus becomes manifest in the types and modes of human activity.

Christian Scientists learn that one of the first requisites to progress Spiritward is either to abandon planning in the human sense or, when it seems necessary to arrange affairs in advance, always to hold their plans, however important they may seem to be, subject to immediate change as new light of Truth is revealed; they know that God's plan for His offspring is nothing less than progress and prosperity.

Has not divine Love already supplied man's every need? Yet, it seems, mortals are so blinded by the mesmerism of matter that they lose sight of this all-important fact and subject themselves to incalculable hardships in bringing about the satisfaction of their human wills. Their eyes become fixed on the treasures of earth,—wealth, fame, worldly power,—all of which if gained are found to be but ashes in the grasp, because entirely lacking in the qualities of permanency. The good treasures of the heart, which alone are worthy and lasting, are not of matter, but of Spirit. Did not Mrs. Eddy thoroughly establish this fact in the oft-quoted statement from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need"?

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