Article November 20, 1943 Issue

"All oneness"

PARK WOLAVER

Many today face situations which common belief says should make them feel lonely. A definition of "lonely" is "without company; ... solitary. Not frequented by human beings." Yet, not all who feel lonely are solitary or without company. Even in a familiar crowd one may feel alone at times.

From this standpoint no one had more reason for feeling lonely than our Way-shower, Christ Jesus. Physically well, he was followed by the diseased and deformed; morally pure, he went among the sinning; full of love toward all, he was repeatedly molested by enemies. He even prophesied the hour when his disciples would desert him. Yet, do his words indicate any loneliness? He said, "Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me." Earlier he voiced his inseparable relationship with God thus: "I and my Father are one."

The source of the word "lonely" is "alone," which in turn derives from combining "all" and "one." This view of "alone" as "all one" has special significance in Christian Science. Here God, Spirit, is All and One. Because nothing really exists but God and His spiritual idea, man, man is always alone with God—never solitary, but "all one" with Life, Truth, and Love; entirely separate from any lying supposition that life can be material.

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