Editorial August 7, 1926 Issue

A Closer Walk With God

Ella W. Hoag

Much is said in the Scriptures about walking with God. We are told to walk in His paths; to walk before Him and be perfect; to walk humbly with Him; to walk in light, in love, in Spirit, in wisdom. All these admonitions present the thought of a constant activity, a continual spiritual progressiveness — and always in the presence of God. This activity of a progressive walk with God demands great purification of motive. The Christian Scientist recognizes from the beginning that his purpose must be both pure and unselfed for right progress to be made.

Mrs. Eddy in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 3) has simplified greatly this question of motive. There she tells us that "the only true ambition is to serve God and to help the race." What motive could be purer or more unselfish? And certainly nothing less could be sufficient to insure obedience to all the commands which the Bible has given in reference to walking with God. Each individual is therefore confronted with the necessity of making such true ambition his own in order that he may continually advance in a more perfect demonstration of it.

To the human consciousness, material desires always seem rife and personal inclinations and personal tendencies ever claim to be active. What Christian Scientist has not been awakened to see that the material senses are perpetually and continuously testifying to their own false presence and to their false evidence? Always they are declaring for good or evil in matter, and insisting that whatever they present is established by and under the operation and protection of what they claim to be invincible material law.

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