Article November 24, 1928 Issue

The Oneness of Good

GEORGENE L. MILLER

Natural science, so called, teaches the indestructibility of matter. But when we observe the changing phenomena of this material world, its geological mutations, its crumbling ruins, mortals subject to birth, maturity, decay, it looks as if there was something wrong with human theory. Matter as a medium through which to work out the problem of being, is certainly unsatisfactory; and we are fain to echo Job's words: "But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living."

When we accept the teachings of Christian Science we find that the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God are something far more than mere theory; we find, in fact, that the allness and oneness of God, good, is the rock on which Christian Science is based. A dictionary defines "oneness" as "the state of existing as one," "that which never has been divided" or which "cannot be conceived of as resolved into parts." It becomes apparent, then, that adhesion and cohesion—unity—in reality belong to God, Spirit. Matter's claim to these is, therefore, but an attempt to counterfeit the infinite One. However, the understanding of the infinity of God, or good, annuls matter's claim to actuality, to unity, stability, or even existence, reducing it to unreality, nothingness.

As we study to establish these facts in consciousness, we begin to think in terms of Spirit and to catch glimpses of a God-governed universe, therefore a good universe, a spiritual universe, perfect and intact, and maintained by laws which establish its unity. We find man as God's image and likeness, always at-one with God, and of necessity at-one with every idea of good. And this teaching becomes practical as we think of man in this way. As Mrs. Eddy has stated on page 467 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established."

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