Article January 7, 1950 Issue

GOOD IS THE ONE GOD

CORA L. SLAUGHTER

If one were to ask the first ten individuals he met their concept of good, he undoubtedly would receive ten varying replies which would be certain to include one or more of the following: material wealth, a successful career, satisfying companionship, congenial environment, and fame, To define good in terms of material things or conditions and think of it as something external to the individual is indigenous to the limited thinking of mortal mind.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, states the Christian Scientist's view of good in these words (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206): "The real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven: 'Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love.'"

Essential to this recognition that good is God is a knowledge of the nature and character of God. This knowledge is ours as we ponder Mrs. Eddy's definition of God in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." There she writes (p. 465), "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

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