Editorial September 24, 1927 Issue

The Way to Attain Holiness

Ella W. Hoag

When it is recognized that holiness includes that which is true, intelligent, lovely, glorious; when it is seen that it is but another name for divine wholeness, for health, for all that is of God, good, then men will be willing to seek it with their whole heart and soul and strength. The world at large has relegated its attainment to some future time, but Christian Science is here unfolding its omnipresent nature, and no one need postpone the hour of proving his own unity therewith.

Now the primal truth which Christian Science emphasizes is that God is All; that "there is none else beside him." Since this is true, it inevitably follows that God's creation is the only creation and it must be as perfect as God made it. All, therefore, that really exists must be holy, healthy, complete; must partake of that holiness which is an inherent quality of all that belongs to God. Christian Scientists, therefore, are called upon to demonstrate the fact that holiness is infinite and possessed in equal measure by every one of God's children.

How contrary to this is the testimony of the material senses! How insistently do they tell of the reverse of holiness, wholeness! How persistently do they affirm the presence of that which is incomplete, imperfect, unholy! And yet holiness must be everywhere, since God, good, fills all space! How, then, shall we prove the allness of the one and the nothingness of the other? How shall we attain that holiness which is the rightful inheritance, here and now, of every child of God? Surely by accepting and obeying the teachings of that Science which explains the way to follow the Master, who demonstrated the "beauty of holiness" in all its transcendent grandeur and completeness.

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