Article March 5, 1927 Issue

True Unity

KATE W. BUCK

The words "one" and "oneness," as used in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, bring to the student a sense of completeness and unity—God infinitely expressed, and all true existence in and of God. This satisfies and stills the human heart, bringing a serene conviction of the divine activity of the one universal power. Thereby the heavy thought of personal responsibility is overcome and supplanted, and men learn to let go of themselves as mere physical personalities, to find their real selfhood as the image and likeness of the one and only I AM. "I am God, and there is none else."

A tremendous sacrifice of materiality, born of a deep desire to know and do the will of God, must precede this spiritual acceptance and growth. Because such desire is true prayer, it may be rightfully accompanied by instant rejoicing that the fulfillment is already begun. A conscious sense of spiritual lack brings its own promise of supply, in accordance with the words of the Master, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Of a certainty, the yearning to find God, and to know Him as All-in-all, will be fulfilled.

Sometimes one may shrink from material sacrifice, because certain material things seem essential to happiness and contentment; but this is due to ignorance of what divine Love has to offer in place of satisfaction in unstable material beliefs. Many earnest seekers for Truth experience this shrinking, until they outgrow the temptation to believe in good as in material things and persons. Jesus substantiated the oneness of good when he said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." She who so faithfully and consistently followed him, Mrs. Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 390), "Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul." We should reverently thank God for this compelling at whatever cost materially. Human dependencies one by one fail to attract and satisfy; and thus are we divinely driven closer to our Father-Mother God, in whom alone are permanent peace and full compensation. To be consciously at-one with God meets every human need, and quiets every anxious thought.

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