Editorial August 8, 1925 Issue

The All-Inclusiveness of God

Duncan Sinclair

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275) Mrs. Eddy writes: "All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love." Thus the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science declares the all-inclusiveness of God. The words just quoted are singularly in line with those of James: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

Now the fact of the allness of God is readily enough admitted; but who will say that the full significance of its meaning has been grasped? And yet, the realization in some degree of God's allness underlies every healing which takes place in Christian Science practice, because in proportion as the allness of God, good, is perceived, the unreality of whatsoever is unlike good is discerned; and clearly to discern the unreality of any form of evil means its destruction. The Christian Scientist endeavors in practice to realize God's allness; and well he knows that the more spiritual his consciousness the clearer is his realization.

But apart from the healing power of the realization of God's allness, nothing is more wonderful to contemplate than the truth that "all substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God." For does not the statement mean that wherever the attributes of God are evidenced, there God is known to be? Christian Science deals effectively with the false belief that good originates with mortals. Holding to the absolute truth of God's allness, it maintains that God is never separate from the good which may manifest itself; and thus is shown the way whereby mankind is saved from the fallacy of believing in what is called personal goodness. Our great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, was continually declaring, either by word or by deed, the fact of God's allness, and that of himself he could do nothing. As our Leader writes (Science and Health, p. 136), "He [Jesus] claimed no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God."

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