Editorial July 10, 1926 Issue

The Infinite Giver

Ella W. Hoag

It is a familiar saying to the Christian Scientist that man always exists at the point of receptivity — of receptivity to infinite good. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 5) Mrs. Eddy has written these eminently satisfying words: "God giving all and man having all that God gives." Then it is as inevitable that man shall alwavs be receiving good as that God shall always be giving good; the one is absolutely dependent on the other. So long as there is a giver there must be a receiver, and since God, good, is the infinite Giver, man, His image and likeness, must be ever receiving all good from Him.

Over and over our beloved Leader accentuates this truth of being; over and over she presents the impossibility of God ever ceasing to give, or of man ever ceasing to have or receive. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 380) she makes this statement: "Many years ago the author made a spiritual discovery, the scientific evidence of which has accumulated to prove that the divine Mind produces in man health, harmony, and immortality;" and Paul emphasizes the same truth when he declares, "He [God] giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." To understand these truths is to be saved from all fear, from all evil.

Men in general are fearing they will in some way lack good. They are afraid they will lack health, or food, or raiment, or home, or friends, or the means to provide them. They seem almost universally in greater or less terror lest in some way supply will be exhausted and they will suffer lack, or that they will lose some good they believe they now possess. The belief in lack or loss is a root of all fear; and all because men are ignorant that the only good there is, the infinite God, from whom His children can never be separated! To find, therefore, in the way Christian Science explains it, that God, who is divine, infinite good, is eternally and perpetually producing all perfection in man, that He is constantly giving him all things, is to have laid hold of the truth whereby all belief in lack and loss with their attendant fears may be completely blotted out from human consciousness.

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