Editorial October 22, 1927 Issue

No End to Good

Ella W. Hoag

How little do men realize the infinite nature of God's bountiful good! Because mankind is so largely taught to view all things from the standpoint of finiteness, its eyes are practically closed to the infinitude of good, as well as to its eternality. Men ordinarily are almost constantly looking for the end of good. So much is this the fact that their sense of good may be said almost invariably to include a belief in a necessary termination of good. What mortal, from his very childhood, has not often found himself trying to postpone the beginning of some pleasant experience, that he might thereby postpone its end, so surely has he felt that that end must inevitably come!

How contrary to this sense of finiteness is the infinite nature of divine good! Christian Science has come to waken men to the truth about good. It is proclaiming through all its teaching that good can never end; that there is in reality no good which is not infinite and everlasting, since all real good is indeed of God. In order, however, to begin to grasp this glorious fact, mortals must be willing to change their basis of thinking. Their belief in the finity of good has been founded on the false claim that good belongs to matter and is therefore transitory, destructible, limited. Instead, real good has neither beginning nor end, is without any element of destructibility, since it is as eternal and infinite as God, and can be found only in Him,—in divine Mind, Life, Truth, Love.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 264) our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes, "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness." The beginner in Christian Science may be tempted to wonder if this statement of our Leader is not beyond his power to accept. He may question if obedience to it would not take from him the ties and pleasures he still calls good, even though at that very moment he may be fearing that sooner or later they will end.

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