Article April 25, 1931 Issue

God's Mercy

PEARL L. QUICK

The knowledge that mortals are in need of God's mercy is instinctive in human thought; also, that something is required of them in order to obtain this mercy. Religious history is filled with accounts of the various methods used to obtain it.

In Christian Science we learn that God shows His mercy by blotting out false material beliefs, for, as divine Principle, He can know no evil or error. We also learn that it is by means of the truth that mortals come close enough to God to obtain His mercy, seen in the blotting out of transgressions and the consequent displacing of discord with harmony, sickness with health, sin with an ever closer approximation of the standard which Christ Jesus set up for humanity, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

The Psalmist makes many references to the divine quality of mercy, and gives many assurances of its availability to men. In the fifty-first Psalm he prays, "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions;" and at the end of each of the verses in the one hundred and thirty-sixth Psalm he declares, "For his mercy endureth for ever." There seems to be no doubt in his thought as to God's mercy being ever available, when properly sought.

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