Article January 10, 1942 Issue

"God is the sum total of the universe"

MABEL SPICER GILL

God is All, and He is Love. Where, then, is there room for His unlikeness? Where and what are hatred, discord, sin disease, and death? Throughout his ministry Christ Jesus pointed out the entireness, perfection, and coordination of the works of the heavenly Father. And Mary Baker Eddy, his faithful follower, in setting forth her discovery of Christian Science, consistently reiterates the totality and harmony of the creator and of the spiritual universe. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes (p. 240), "In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord."

In a notable address, delivered in Chicago on June 13, 1888, Mrs. Eddy declared (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 105,106), "God is the sum total of the universe," continuing with the query, "Then what and where are sin, sickness, and death?" The Bible contains an explanation of the phenomena of the false material sense of creation which arises from an unreal claim or mist, and not from the creator, who is "the sum total of the universe." The Scriptural version of the origin of the material creation as taking place in a mist is given in the second chapter of Genesis, whereas the account of the original spiritual creation, given in the first chapter of Genesis, reveals God as creating all and finding everything "very good." The creations arising from the mist, appearing as hating, sinning, warring, sick, and dying mortals, furnish the mythical history of error; whereas God's real, spiritual children are eternally safe, sound, and sinless, abiding in the everlasting unity of Love and Truth.

The destruction of this confusing, distorting ambient was foretold by Isaiah: "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations." The advent of Christ Jesus ushered in the spiritual light that was to disperse the mists befogging all peoples and nations. And the rending of the veil of the temple at the time of the crucifixion illustrated the doom of delusion and mystification.

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