Editorial March 13, 1926 Issue

Acquainting Ourselves with God

Ella W. Hoag

To the Christian Scientist the desire to acquaint himself with God must always be paramount. Because Christian Science teaches that God includes all good, it is an inevitable conclusion that there can be nothing desirable outside of such acquaintance. Jesus declared, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." The way, therefore, to the realization of health, holiness, heaven, harmony, must be the way of such acquaintance. Christian Science undeniably points the path wherein all must walk who would reach this all goal.

All too frequently, however, Christian Scientists find themselves crying out with Job: "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!" This may be because they are attempting to see Him from the standpoint of a material sense of things; or they may be trying to find Him through their own intellectual efforts, imagining that a lack of knowledge of Him is due to a failure to grasp some astute mental point of vision. They may be attempting, from what they imagine to be some dizzy metaphysical height, to reach out for further illumination. Then they wonder why they find themselves fallen and bruised, and all too of blame some one else for their tumble!

There is, however, no way whereby any one can acquaint himself with God except by first relinquishing human means and methods. Then there must be a willingness to search humbly and diligently for an understanding of the God who is infinite good, through a childlike willingness to find Him in the way of instruction He Himself has ordained. People have talked about becoming acquainted with God and His Christ as though it were a blessing which was to drop down upon them in some mysterious unknown way from a mysterious far-away heaven. Instead, it is very close at hand, since God Himself has given us the abundant revelation whereby we may win this acquaintanceship.

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