Editorial February 1, 1941 Issue

The Adequacy of Man

Evelyn F. Heywood

Surely nowhere has Mary Baker Eddy indicated the way and assured the outcome of salvation more positively than in these words on page 412 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death." Adequate! Here is a word spelling assurance and sufficiency, competence and surety.

When Mrs. Eddy discovered divine law and realized its universal availability, she called her discovery Christian Science. As the result of revelation and demonstration, the testing of her conclusions in their relation to the Bible, to human reason and physical phenomena, she proved to herself, and later to others, that the law of God, omnipotent and omnipresent, is adequate to the solving of every problem, to the overcoming and final extermination of every form of evil and the establishment of divine Love.

The orthodox Christian would not deny Mrs. Eddy's conclusion that God is omnipotent; were he to do so he would be at variance with the Bible. Neither would he deny, because he is aware of its occasional evidence, the existence of a supreme law able to offset the human. But the difference between his point of view and that of the Christian Scientist is his failure to realize that there is immediately available, because ever present, a power adequate to meet every need and unclasp every hold. The acceptance by men of their own inadequacy, either mental or physical, has paralyzed, undermined, halted, the fulfillment of the holiest desires and loftiest ambitions. All beliefs of limitation are beliefs of inadequacy; they declare the absence of omnipotence.

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