Article August 11, 1928 ISSUE

Knowing God

HARRY S. SOUTHAM

When the writer of the forty-sixth psalm recorded that profound injunction, "Be still, and know that I am God," he would appear to have stated tersely and definitely for all time the one thing needful, whereby mankind may be saved. For has he not paraphrased in this brief sentence what Christ Jesus said some centuries later when he defined life eternal as the consciousness of the allness of good? "This is life eternal," said the Way-shower, "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

What does it mean to be still and know God, and how is one to obey this injunction? Does it not mean this, that each one of us is to accept only the good as the real, and that the only place this may be achieved is in individual consciousness? Christian Science, the restatement to this age of Christ's Christianity, foretold in John's Gospel and Revelation, and revealed by Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, makes this abundantly clear. On page 242 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says: "There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality—to have no other consciousness of life—than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses."

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