Editorial December 29, 1951 Issue

GOD IS GOOD

Robert Ellis Key

We learn in Christian Science that God is wholly good. He is the one cause and creator of all that really exists. The harmonious facts of being always have existed and always will exist. All belief in past, present, or future evil is obliterated through the understanding of the omnipresence of good. There is nothing to fear from the past and no apprehension of the future when God, good, is understood. Communion with God is synonymous with communion with good. It means to meditate prayerfully on all good and to center all thought, energy, and desire on good to the exclusion of evil.

In the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines good as follows (p. 587): "God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action." This simple definition of good as Spirit, God, is not beyond the grasp of the humblest disciple of Christ. The atheist may deny the existence of God, the agnostic may believe God to he unknowable, but none, not even the infidel, will go so far as to deny the existence of good or to cease his quest for it.

In response to his request that he might be shown the glory of God, Moses received the answer from the Lord (Ex. 33:19), "I will make all my goodness pass before thee." The glory of God's goodness came to Moses not merely as a moral sentiment, but as an overwhelming power. Moses was commanded to stand upon the rock. In doing so he would be hid in a cleft of the rock and thus would stand firm as God's goodness passed by, or, in other words, became gloriously apparent.

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