Editorial December 24, 1927 Issue

The Unity of God and Man

ELLA W. HOAG

How earnestly men have desired unity with good! Always they have been seeking for it, although in many a mistaken way. Because they have neither known nor understood perfectly the nature of good, it has not been strange that their efforts have been more or less mistaken and fruitless in right results. Nevertheless, there has always been in the human consciousness an appeal for that close association with divine good which should render all men blessed. It was largely because of this deep desire in the human heart that the song of the angels at Jesus' birth struck such a responsive chord and has gone on reverberating down through the ages in the heart of everyone who has been awake to the desirability of unity with good.

When Jesus said, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven," he opened the way for every mortal to turn from the belief of a false creation to the understanding of God as the only Father of man. He thereby proclaimed the necessity of the awakening to the understanding of man's eternal spiritual unity with God. Although Jesus' life-work proved that this unity with God, good, has always been an established fact, and although he also showed men that they too may prove this divine unity, it was not until Christian Science was revealed that this possibility was made completely and demonstrably to mankind.

In the light of Christian Science it is really a simple matter to begin to base all one's thinking on the fact of the universal divine sonship, and then to press steadily on in obedience to the demands of Truth in refusing to accept or admit as real everything which is ungodlike. It may seem as though no one would hesitate for a moment to accept this wonderful truth of man's perfect unity with divine good; but because of the mistaken beliefs in the human consciousness in regard to what constitutes good, one often finds himself struggling to maintain a unity which in the last analysis has no real good in it. Because of this, to the human consciousness there must ever seem a necessity of dividing between the true and the false sense of good and of so learning to understand the divine nature that nothing else shall seem desirable.

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