Editorial August 8, 1931 Issue

Our Inheritance

Duncan Sinclair

Christian Scientists are profoundly grateful for the revelation of God and His creation which has come to them through Christian Science. Like the rest of mankind they were formerly ill at ease in their ignorance as to the meaning of existence. Sometimes they were resentful at the afflictions which seemed to be the lot of so many. Oftentimes they were despondent at the sin which held sway in the world, making for the degradation, the misery of men. What a relief it was to them to know the truth about God, to understand something of His real nature as infinite good, thereby entering in a measure into the enjoyment of their divine inheritance!

God is Love—infinite Love. Time and again does the thought of the faithful and consecrated student of Christian Science turn to the contemplation of this great truth, for thus he is able to shut out the false, mesmeric beliefs of material sense which argue that a power other than Love exists. God, our Father-Mother, Love, is our creator; hence our real selves are spiritual and perfect. This is the understanding which Christian Science imparts, and for which we are so deeply grateful.

Mrs. Eddy writes on page 307 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love! More we cannot ask: more we do not want: more we cannot have. This sweet assurance is the 'Peace, be still' to all human fears, to suffering of every sort." How significant are our Leader's words! Think what is implied by the truth that God is omnipresent Love! Since God is infinite Love, in reality nothing the opposite of Love exists. That is to say, evil has no real existence; it is false, mythical, illusory. And having no real existence, evil is not to be feared, whatever form it may assume.

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