Editorial October 23, 1926 Issue

"We must deny sin and plead God's allness"

Duncan Sinclair

Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was actuated by the supreme motive of bringing the truth—the truth about reality—to men, in order that they might be healed or saved. After she had discovered that God is infinite good and that in consequence evil (so called) is unreal, and had been able through the truth which she had discovered to heal disease and sin, she resolved to make her discovery known to humanity, so that all might benefit as she herself had done. To this end she published "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Now this textbook, Science and Health, literally teems with declarations of absolute Truth. From beginning to end of it Mrs. Eddy pleads God's allness and denies the reality of evil, and often in phrases and sentences of the most striking character. Two of these are to be found on page 15, in a paragraph itself one of the finest analyses ever penned on the true prayerful attitude. They read: "We must close the lips and silence the material senses. In the quiet sanctuary of earnest longings, we must deny sin and plead God's allness." In these two brief sentences she sums up the correct mode of approach to the throne of grace, pointing out in the simplest language the right mental attitude toward materiality and the necessity of denying the reality of sin while affirming the allness of God, good.

Inspired thought has always striven to "magnify the Lord." Christ Jesus and his disciples did so most markedly. John's words in Revelation cannot be surpassed in this regard: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." So that our Leader was but following in their footsteps when she set forth, declared, affirmed in her books the allness of God. And nowhere else except in the Bible is there to be found equally positive statements to those contained in her writings on this great theme.

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