Editorial March 14, 1925 Issue

The Only Attraction

Ella W. Hoag

"THERE is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind." Thus in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 102) does our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, present one of the most reassuring facts of existence. Here is the truth which, when understood and demonstrated, will do away with all the claims of evil. Here is a promise of the inevitable realization of infinite good. Here is a correlative to Jeremiah's exultant refrain: "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."

This drawing of all men to God, Spirit, is then a perpetual divine activity, which is irresistible in its nature and is as fully beneficient as it is irresistible. It is an all-satisfying assurance to the one hungering to know God, famishing for the bread of Life, to be told that God is drawing him with an everlasting love,—that the attraction of the divine Mind is so all-powerful that he cannot fail to yield thereto.

Men would quickly awaken to this irresistible force of Spirit, divine Mind,—they would quickly accept and obey it,—did not materiality claim to present an opposite attraction, saying that there is a good other than that which belongs to Spirit. Material sense, the supposititious opposite of Spirit, is continually affirming its own attractiveness, always flaunting what it calls its own charms and allurements, always claiming that it can satisfy, even though but temporarily. In its enmity against Spirit it would deceive men by telling them that if they will only accept its lies, it will satisfy them far better than can Spirit.

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