Article November 19, 1927 Issue

Seeking God

LOUISE W. PRIMROSE

MANY are the exhortations in the Scriptures to seek God; and to those who obey, the reward has ever been immeasurable. Throughout the Bible we find convincing proof of this glorious fact; and in the light of Christian Science with which we now read these sacred pages, we know that those whom disaster appeared to overtake in their search for and demonstration of Truth, nevertheless triumphed gloriously. Our Master's life and works stand forever an unparalleled example of absolute trust in God, and of complete victory over every limitation of material sense, even to the overcoming of death and the grave—proving for all time the omnipotence and omnipresence of divine Life and Truth and Love.

In these days we have before us another example of this same trust in God and its certain recompense, in the accomplishment of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," who has proved the inspiring Bible promise,—so beautifully rendered in the much loved solo from Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah,"—"If with all your hearts ye truly seek me, ye shall ever surely find me," to be the veritable assurance of our Father-Mother God, who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. To seek God, then, is to find Him; and to find Him is to find also our real selfhood—the perfect, spiritual man of His creating. Could we wish for greater reward or seek a higher goal? Assuredly not; for as Mrs. Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 70), "The scientific ultimate of this God-idea must be, will be, forever individual, incorporeal, and infinite, even the reflection, 'image and likeness,' of the infinite God."

Of him that seeks not after God, we read in Psalms, "God is not in all his thoughts;" and it may be questioned how it is possible, with the numerous daily distractions by which we are confronted, to keep our thoughts constantly lifted to God. This query receives an answer on page 261 of Science and Health, where we read, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." Thus it can be realized that as we exclude from our thinking the mortal seeming, replacing it with "the enduring, the good, and the true," in the same ratio we are keeping our thoughts on God, and finding ourselves dwelling joyfully, actively, unceasingly in the realm of good, the kingdom of heaven.

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