Editorial March 19, 1927 Issue

Our Obligations to God

Ella W. Hoag

Men as a class do not appear to spend much time in consideration of their obligations to God. Humanity has long been educated to believe that all things have been created for its especial satisfaction. It has therefore concluded that the one important problem is to see, each for himself, that he secures all that belongs to him. Almost from cradle days mankind has been taught to look at life as though it were intended simply to bring material pleasure and profit. Such obligations as have been presented have largely seemed to be those due to one's own immediate interests and affairs.

To be sure, from the beginning of time, there has also been the teaching that man's primary duty is to God. The selfishness, however, on which all human belief has been and is still based, has apparently obscured the heavenly vision. Men have, therefore, gone stupidly on, seeking good in their own gain and thinking but little of the real good which can only be won from the opposite standpoint of an unselfed love for God and man.

Christian Science has, however, come showing that all obligations are, in the last analysis, due to God. Only as one learns to understand and fulfill them can he perform his duty properly to God, to his neighbor, or to himself. If one begins wrongly, he will end wrongly; while to start aright is a sure step towards attaining perfect results. Only as men awaken to the need of basing every thought, word, and deed in God, divine Principle, can they bring into fulfillment any right activity. It is only as we acknowledge God in all our ways that we are promised He shall direct our paths!

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