Article May 26, 1945 Issue

All One with God

ISABEL RICHARDSON MOLTER

A young man in training in the Army Air Forces of the United States was facing the new and untried experience of his first solo flight. He did not, however, permit subtle suggestions of mortal mind to whisper, "I'm afraid," and, "I wonder if I can."' Instead, his thought turned to what he knew of Truth as taught in Christian Science. He realized that Mind imparts intelligence and empowers right thinking and right acting. He knew that Mind controls and governs every one of its ideas, and that the one ever-present intelligence was controlling and governing him. A few days before, he had received a letter drawing his attention to the following statement by Mary Baker Eddy (Pulpit and Press, p. 3): "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love."

Describing his experience in a letter to his parents, the boy wrote: "Today was the big day. God and I soloed." Such clear, unwavering knowing of his unity with God resulted in a fearless, strengthening experience and a successful flight. His many succeeding flights were also happy proofs of right activity and God-given dominion. Many Christian Scientists are making constant discoveries of spiritual qualities which they possess by divine inheritance. These qualities of Spirit include moral courage, strength, initiative, faith, and inspiration. Expressing them, we become aware of man's unity with God.

The word "alone" in early English was written as two words. al one, "all one." Thus we find that the young aviator was alone with God or "all one" with divine Mind. In this spiritual consciousness there is no door through which any erroneous suggestion of fear, forgetfulness, wrong action, or confusion can enter. He was one with his true selfhood. Our Leader has clearly stated this thought in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 20) as follows: "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."

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