Editorial April 15, 1939 Issue

"The three great verities of Spirit"

George Shaw Cook

The Psalmist asked the question, "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" And his own answer to this question shows a wonderful appreciation of the omnipresence of God, Spirit. He said, "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." When Moses said, "See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me," the answer came from God, "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."

While these two familiar Scriptural passages contain satisfying assurance of the comforting and sustaining presence of divine Love, nevertheless in both instances the thoughts of space and time and matter enter. Christian Science lifts thought above the plane of belief in the existence of finite space and limited time and their equivalent, matter, as being in any way related to Deity. Mary Baker Eddy writes on pages 109 and 110 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "The three great verities ofSpirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual."

In the above-quoted statement Mrs. Eddy affirms not only the omnipresence of God, Spirit, Mind, but His omnipotence and omniscience. And in Science and Health (p. 473), she makes this further declaration: "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power."

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