Article June 24, 1939 Issue

Praising God

DELLA M. WHITNEY

Through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, many are gaining the understanding that God is wholly good, and that He is All. Since this is the truth, praising God for His goodness and His allness has a healing, strengthening effect. We do not need to wait for physical conditions or environment to improve before thanking God, but, looking away from the evidence of the material senses, we should press on, glorifying Him and refusing to recognize anything unlike Him as real, powerful, or enduring.

Many wonderful healings have resulted form steadfastly expressing gratitude for infinite good and rejoicing in the truth of perfect God and perfect creation, regardless of what the material evidence claims to present. Many years ago, a student of Christian Science was able to overcome a most trying physical condition of long duration by rightly resolving that she would no longer recognize it as real, regardless of what evidence material sense presented. As she clung steadfastly to the perfection of creation, declaring and realizing that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Unity of Good" (p. 4), "God is all true consciousness," and that there is no mind to accept evil or believe in its reality, the situation was quickly overcome.

All inharmony results from belief in a power apart from God. Since God is infinite good and fills all space, it is only our acceptance of and belief in a power apart from Him that causes us any physical, mental, or financial disturbance. When we are believing that there is a power which can separate us from God's goodness, we are not being obedient to the teachings of the Bible and Christian Science, which affirm and reaffirm that God, good, is All, and that there is none beside Him. In Science and Health (p. 249) Mrs. Eddy says, "Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence."

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