Editorial September 16, 1944 Issue

Alone—"all one"

Margaret Morrison

"All one"! In the light of the teaching of Christian Science this Old English form of the word "alone," cited in the dictionary as obsolete, becomes fraught with meaning and contemporary with all time, for Christian Science teaches the supreme fact of the indivisibility of God and man, Principle and idea. Man can no more be separated from the Principle of his being, God, than a number can be separated from the principle of mathematics. It is only in the mortal dream that one seems to become separated from All and so to be alone. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 20) Mary Baker Eddy says, "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."

A student of Christian Science was at one time suddenly called upon to make a long journey by automobile alone. She was beset by a great sense of aloneness, fear, and misgiving, and reluctance to make the necessary trip. Seeking comfort and reassurance, she called upon a Christian Science practitioner for help. Much comfort and liberation came to her through the message she received. She was told to remember that through every moment of that journey she would be companioned by the loveliness of her own being, which was the reflection of God's being, so God would be as close to her as her own being all the way. It was pointed out to her that here was an opportunity for her to discover more of the loveliness of divine Mind, its vital, instructing, and entertaining ideas, its intelligent guidance, its protecting power, its beauty and encompassing love. The awakening which came to her through this message to the true meaning of "alone" and its opportunities made that a happy journey, indeed, free and safe and rich in blessings.

Those great ones who have reflected most clearly and fulfilled most effectually the purposes of good have seemed most alone. "Moses," Mrs. Eddy says, "advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 200). Yet Moses seemed very much alone in leading that nation out of a state of bondage and servitude through its transitional wilderness of fear, doubt, and idolatry. Here, indeed, did being alone prove to mean being "all one"; "all one" with the Mind whose power wrote on tables of stone that moral law which became the foundation for the civic laws of nations; "all one" with the Love whose tenderness, when he faltered, reassured him with words which stand an everlasting promise to all who fear and falter: "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest." Jacob was alone wrestling with the errors and fears of the carnal mind when that same divine presence was made manifest and strengthened him for victory.

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