Article January 30, 1926 Issue

Unity

KATE FOSTER HANNAH

Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." In the light which Christian Science throws on all subjects, revealing the unreal nature of all that is opposed to God and to His infinite, spiritual creation, we may consider as mammon any thing, condition, belief, or circumstance which has not originated in the one perfect cause, God.

Are we loving God, Truth, wholly while giving acknowledgment, either silently or audibly, to evil in any form? We individually love and serve God by denying reality to every phase of evil presented for acceptance, and by understanding the absolute unity of God, divine Mind, and His perfect idea, man.

Every suggestion of evil, in whatever guise presented, is a temptation akin to the one which came to Jesus, taking him up to a very high mountain and presenting the power of good as coming by way of giving worshipful recognition to an opposite evil power and its kingdom. But Jesus had attained to an understanding of the oneness, the singleness, of God's kingdom and power, so that he could say to the tempter, or temptation, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Next we are told, "The devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him."

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