Editorial October 20, 1928 Issue

"God is All-in-all"

Duncan Sinclair

In Isaiah the words occur, "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me." In Revelation it is written, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." And as the result of inspired vision Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 331 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas."

The allness of God, which Christian Science proclaims, is theoretically admitted by all Christians when they allow that God is infinite; but never until the coming of Christian Science was the full significance of the term recognized in its practical bearing upon human experience. For what is the logic of the situation if, after admitting that God is All-in-all, it be seen that only the divine Mind and His ideas are real? It is that matter, that which seems tangible to material sense, has no real existence; that matter is but a false concept of the so-called human mind. And, further, since God is All-in-all, and since He is good, what is called evil can have no real existence either. Or, as Mrs. Eddy puts it (Science and Health, p. 339): "Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God."

Christian Science, then, presents to mankind in the most definite manner the truth of the allness of God and the unreality of matter and evil. If we accept it, we are loyal in thought to God, the infinite One. If we deny it, we are refusing to admit God's allness, and are giving to matter and evil the support which false material sense claims they should receive. In Christian Science the situation is, however, clearly defined. The Christian Scientist readily admits the allness of God, and as readily agrees that matter and evil are unreal; and he does so while not in the least oblivious of the fact that he may not as yet have gone very far in his demonstration of the great truth he has accepted.

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