Editorial January 9, 1926 Issue

Unity with God

Ella W. Hoag

When Wendell Phillips declared that "one on God's side is a majority," he enunciated a fundamental fact, a fact which most men would be only too happy to prove true. He must have recognized in some measure that if one were allied with God, he would be associated with all the power there is or can be. For one to be in the scale with God is instantly to see that there can be nothing to weigh against him. To be joined to the infinitude of good is to find there is no evil; is to have discovered the utter falsity of any claim to another power than good; is to have relinquished all weak and ineffectual purpose, all unsuccessful effort; is to be joined to that which never falters or fails, which never knows aught but success.

It does not take a very large understanding of God for one to see that such a union as this must be completely satisfying. Even to begin to realize that God includes all power, all good, all intelligence, all perfection, all love, reveals the desirability of being united with all this ineffable goodness, infinite wisdom, divine ability, holiness, health, happiness. Such unity could not fail to be the destruction of all that is unlike God, unlike all His eternal, divine qualities. It would also mean the complete deliverance from all that could claim to oppose or interface with any right intention, with every right activity. United with perfect cause, perfect effect must be inevitably apparent, and no enemy can assail; no evil can tempt; no sin, sickness, sorrow, or suffering can so much as claim to appear.

Jesus not only saw the possibility of such at-one-ment, but he also proved it possible of demonstration in every particular. Every thought, word, and deed of his exemplified this ability; and he commanded every follower of his, "Go, and do thou likewise." Christian Science stresses this same command in its every requirement. In "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 57) Mrs. Eddy writes, "All must be of God, and not our own, separated from Him." In this succinct sentence our Leader reiterates the demand of Jesus; while on page 28 she declares, "He [God] must be ours practically, guiding our every thought and action; else we cannot understand the omnipresence of good sufficiently to demonstrate, even in part, the Science of the perfect Mind and divine healing."

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