Editorial April 4, 1925 Issue

God's Works are Established

Ella W. Hoag

All men are longing for security, but as a general thing they are looking for it in the wrong place. Mankind is always hoping for the day when it will be conscious of establishment. In just the degree that it looks to matter for the sense of fixity, it finds only insecurity. Even though it may imagine that it has a plan for life well worked out and that all things are running smoothly, it soon discovers something awry, and its hopes for peace and harmony become disarranged and unsettled.

It is only as men learn to understand God and His works that they begin to know that which can never be altered or changed; that they begin to find the security which satisfies, and wherein there is perfect rest and confidence. The Psalmist sang: "The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting."

When Christian Science declares, as did Isaiah, "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else," it shows the way out of all that is uncertain and transitory, and points to the discernment of all that is eternally established and immovable. When it thus reveals the allness of God, proclaiming that He is indeed omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, it becomes the savior from all the instability of belief in matter and its falsities. As Christian Science defines the infinite nature of God, Spirit, as all good, it delivers from the fears induced by belief in a supposititious opposite which speaks only of that which is unfixed, illusive, unreliable. In place of every falsity it presents a truth which cannot be moved, but on which men may plant themselves with all the assurance of immovability.

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