Article March 31, 1945 Issue

Encirclement

VINCENT HAROLD EWING

In Isaiah we read (45:5), "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, expresses the same thought in her poem, "Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4): "His arm encircles me, and mine, and all." From these truths we learn that the only encirclement that can ever occur in God's universe is His girdling or encircling of all His creation.

Man can never be shut out from or cut off from good, substance, and supply. Every one of God's ideas is forever with his Father-Mother God, and all that the Father has is his. Man, as a spiritual idea, is eternally at one with infinite Mind. He can never, even for an instant, be separated from the infinite, all-embracing, all-enfolding, protecting, and sustaining love of God.

We learn through the inspired Word of the Bible and throughout the writings of Mrs. Eddy of the nothingness, the impotence, the nowhereness of evil, and the allness, the omnipotence, the everywhereness of God and all that He is—all good, all substance, intelligence, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. David knew of the ever-presence of God; for does he not say in one of his Psalms (139:7): "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" Paul also was convinced that nothing could separate him from the love of God. "Jesus of Nazareth," writes Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 18), "taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage."

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