Article August 26, 1950 Issue

ONENESS

WILFRED S. THORPE

THOSE who honor God do so for one reason or another. Perhaps they honor Him for His goodness, for His immeasurable power, for His ever-presence. We acknowledge God as the one great cause, or creator. The one cause being good, could the effect be other than good? The creator being all-power, could the one created fail to express energy and vitality? There must be a unity, or oneness, between God, the Maker, and that which He makes. He could not make anything foreign to His nature. Such reasoning definitely indicates that there is, there must be, a positive unity, or oneness, existing between God and spiritual man, His offspring.

Furthermore, this unity eternally exists; indeed, the author of the book of Job expresses it when he writes (Job 38:7), "The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." What harmony and unity! Absolute oneness of thought and purpose!

Mary Baker Eddy refers to the text found in Job when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" P565), "After the stars sang together and all was primeval harmony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea." Note that Mrs. Eddy used the singular number not only when speaking of "the spiritual idea," but also when referring to "the material lie."

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