Article August 30, 1930 Issue

The Divine Purpose

THOMAS JOSEPH ABBOTT

IT is fairly safe to assume that there is hardly a single poet, sage, religionist, philosopher, or in fact any seriously thinking person, who has not spent much time in trying to find a satisfying answer to what has been called "the riddle of the universe," or the divine purpose of existence.

Before the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, in 1866, it was thought by many that the statement put forth by Christ Jesus, "For this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth," had reference to his witnessing only and not to that of his followers as well, and this despite the many earlier Scriptural writings to the contrary, as for instance the words of Isaiah, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen."

The truth to which the Master referred, and to which he bore such loving, faithful, and productive witness, is the absolute, eternal, unchanging spiritual reality of all things, in contradistinction to the material, temporal, changing, erring phenomena of the physical senses; and this supernal witnessing illustrated and demonstrated his childlike trust and enlightened confidence in the power, presence, and reality of good only. He understood the availability of God, good, to offset and reverse every discordant phenomenon as it presented itself in human experience, and to establish in its place the evidence of harmonious being.

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