Editorial April 25, 1925 Issue

God's Light

Ella W. Hoag

We read in Genesis that "in the beginning" God's fiat, "Let there be light," went forth with the inevitable result that "there was light"! From then until now this same command of God has been sounding its awakening note, since enlightenment is always needed everywhere. In no other way can error of every sort be uncovered and dispelled. Jesus' statement, "If a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him," has been proved true in some degree by most men; for who has not experienced the disadvantages of darkness? And who has not cried out many times for more light?

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 393) Mrs. Eddy writes, "When Jesus declares that 'the light of the body is the eye,' he certainly means that light depends upon Mind;" and on pages 510 and 511 she further tells us: "Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own light and governing the universe, including man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, 'whose seed is in itself.'" This uniting of light and intelligence is a marvelous revelation in itself, and immediately shows the way of salvation from all darkness, ignorance.

Now men have generally acknowledged that enough of true intelligence would bring that enlightenment which would displace all ignorance. Until Christian Science was revealed they, however, lacked the understanding that this intelligence is infinite, an unlimited quality of God, divine Mind. Believing, as they did, that it was a human attribute belonging to mortals, they had failed to understand that it expresses divine omnipresence and omnipotence, and so had often been in despair because of the apparent lack of it. To glimpse the truth that divine intelligence is always at hand—available, active, all-powerful—is indeed the light before which all that belongs to darkness must eventually flee.

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