Editorial February 3, 1934 Issue

"Trust the Eternal"

Duncan Sinclair

"Trust the Eternal when the shadows gather." With these words begins a beautiful hymn in the revised Christian Science Hymnal. How blessed are they who amid the shadows of earth and battling with adverse circumstances—sickness, sin, or the effects of sin—can trust the Eternal, even God the Most High, because of their understanding of His goodness and love! Everybody knows how perplexing human existence can seem to be. Everybody has had to deal with its problems. Everybody, surely, has uttered a prayer for guidance in the effort to solve these problems. Throughout the entire experience of the human race there has been the need for this prayer; for mortals have continually been coming up against difficulties which unaided they felt were beyond their power to resolve.

God, the Being to whom men have instinctively turned for help throughout the ages, has been gradually revealed to them. It has taken long centuries for them to understand His nature as they may understand it today. And the revelation has come through those whose thought has been attuned to righteousness, purity, and love; for only to such could the heavenly vision appear; only by such could the sacred truth be heard. We of today who understand the teaching of Christian Science, account ourselves highly privileged because we have the knowledge of God in such full measure. Christian Science treasures every spiritual truth known to the Hebrew people, every spiritual truth taught by Christ Jesus; and to these it has added its own quota of divine revelation.

What, then, is the nature of the Eternal, the nature of God, as Christian Science declares it? God is infinite Love, infinite good; and He never changes. Further, God is infinite Life, omnipotent Truth, omnipresent Mind. From this it is seen that in true being there can be naught but God and His manifestation. What follows from these truths? That real being is perfect. And thus the great fact is established that evil is unreal. This means that not one of the afflictions which seem to play havoc with human happiness and peace has aught of reality about it: all are but illusions of so-called material sense. Strange doctrine, does someone say? Strange only to thought spiritually unillumined; but irrefutable in the light of the understanding of God which Christian Science brings.

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