Article July 8, 1950 Issue

THE UNIVERSALITY OF GOOD

M. ROSAMOND WRIGHT

Are we sometimes perplexed as to why we are here or as to what our aim and purpose in life should be? Mary Baker Eddy beautifully clarifies such quandaries in a letter to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. She writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165): "As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good. Thus may each member of this church rise above the oft-repeated inquiry. What am I? to the scientific response: I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing."

To enrich our understanding of good as universal, we must first recognize God as divine Principle and acknowledge that He alone governs the universe and man. Then we can rejoice in the knowledge that God is expressing His holy purpose and plan through His idea, man.

To gain this understanding, an earnest desire for growth in grace is requisite. We must "strive to enter in at the strait gate" (Luke 13: 24), strive to live in agreement with divine order, the order of true being —perfect God, perfect man, perfect universe, here and now. When this divine order of being becomes established in our thinking, we shall be clearer witnesses for Truth, or God, accepting as our goal the full recognition of the brotherhood of man and a God-governed universe, in which good is universal.

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