Article November 25, 1939 Issue

One Universal Family

ETHEL M. MC CANDLESS

The word "family" expresses the human concept of a precious spiritual fact, even the relationship of the Father-Mother God to His spiritual offspring.

"Creation is ever appearing," writes Mrs. Eddy, "and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source. Mortal sense inverts this appearing and calls ideas material. Thus misinterpreted, the divine idea seems to fall to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal man" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 507, 508). To grasp, even in a degree, the tremendous significance of the above statement is to experience a measureless satisfaction and peace. The understanding that the material world is but an inversion or misinterpretation of the uninterrupted, harmonious activity of eternal Mind and its infinite ideas, enables one to face fearlessly and with equanimity the round of mortal experience with its seeming contradictions and complexities, its struggles and strife.

Because the human mind has a limited sense of God as the divine Parent of all, its concept of family and brotherhood has been circumscribed. Generally speaking, men have confined that love and loyalty to a small circle of relatives and friends. But today, as never before, the affairs of the human race are seen to be so intertwined and interrelated that men are being compelled to think more disinterestedly of human relations. Because the real creation is spiritual, and ever appearing, the true idea of brotherhood persistently presents itself for recognition.

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