Article December 26, 1925 Issue

Divine Sufficiency

CHARLES V. WINN

ONE of the things for which students of Christian Science are most grateful is the fact that its teaching removes from their thought any limited or restricted concept of God. Throughout the writings of Mrs. Eddy there is constantly iterated and reiterated the eternal fact of God's unlimited wisdom, goodness, and love. In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 41) she says, "The divine Principle which governs the universe, including man, if demonstrated, is sufficient for all emergencies." But even the most advanced students of Christian Science need to be alert, lest false material sense try to lead them into dependence on any other than this all-sufficient divine Principle and its power.

Christian Science denies emphatically that the power of God is ever available to one but not to another. Our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, says on page 13, "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals." God's love is all-enfolding and immeasurable, and we can never find ourselves in any situation where His power cannot be exercised in our behalf. When this great truth permeates human consciousness, the pernicious teaching of false theology that at one time in human history God healed the sick, but that we can no longer hope for this beneficent exercise of His power, will have been destroyed.

We cannot remind ourselves too often that God is infinite Mind. There is hardly an hour in the day when we are not called upon to make a decision of some sort. Sometimes it may be of a minor nature; and sometimes it may be of great importance. Nevertheless, there is always the right decision, and infinite Mind knows what that is; and as man is God's reflection we can know what He would have us do at all times and under all conditions. We frequently hear it said, I cannot be thinking Christian Science all the time; I have to be thinking about my affairs. Now we never cease thinking. We are thinking about something all the time; and we are thinking either correctly or incorrectly. We are holding either a false, material concept or a spiritually true concept about everything with which we have to do. Why not, then, turn to the all-sufficient, all-knowing Mind, God, to guide us in all our ways? As we learn to do this, our failures will become less and less, and success in righteous endeavor will become the rule of life.

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