Editorial August 14, 1948 Issue

GOD'S IDEAL

Helen Wood Bauman

An individual's ideal is his highest conception of being. Men are known and respected for their high ideals, or discredited and disliked because they lack them.

To mortal sense there appear to be many human personalities, each with a private mind and mental mode of his own, and each one formulating his own goal of success. There consequently seem to be countless types and classifications of human ideals with no specific standard of perfection, no absolute basis of reality. The ideals of human beings are therefore seen to vary with the background, education, and Christianization of the persons evolving them. But Christian Science explains the falsity of the mortal appearance of many minds or persons and reveals the wondrous truth that God is the only Person in the universe—one infinite, individual, self-existent Mind—and that the spiritual ideas evolved by this infinite Person, or divine Principle, constitute the real creation.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science and wrote the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says in that volume (p. 517), "The world believes in many persons; but if God is personal, there is but one person, because there is but one God." And she continues: "The only proper symbol of God as person is Mind's infinite ideal. What is this ideal? Who shall behold it? This ideal is God's own image, spiritual and infinite."

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