Editorial September 17, 1927 Issue

Good is Always Present

Ella W. Hoag

All the world desires good. Even the one who seems immersed in sin imagines that thereby he is gaining something that is desirable; he would tell you that there is good in what he is doing. The human concept of good is so variously mistaken that mortals disagree as to its nature, and this is because their sense of good is so allied to matter that good seems to them at best but transitory and ephemeral.

In spite of this, good has always been eternal, unchangeable, ever present, glorious. There has never been more than one true concept of it, and that is God's own perfect concept. Good has therefore always partaken of the nature of God Himself; it has always been and always will be spiritual, holy, beautiful, including all that can ever be desirable; and it is withal as infinite as God. Indeed, Christian Science has revealed to us that good is another term for God, and that in proportion as we understand good we understand God, and vice versa.

Jesus gave as the first commandment: "Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength." And in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 279) Mrs. Eddy tells us, "It is the love of God, and not the fear of evil, that is the incentive in Science." As we lay hold of the truth that God and good are practically synonymous, the door is opened wide to deliverance from all evil; for where can there be any room left for fear or belief in evil, since our God is omnipresent, omnipotent good? No longer can there be any doubt that His infinite purpose is all beneficent, since He is all good.

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