Article May 19, 1951 Issue

TO WHAT DO I GIVE GLORY?

PARK WOLAVER

"To what do I give glory for my well-being?" The writer once asked himself this question, following it with more pointed questions which disclosed a need for improved thinking. He asked: "Do I attribute any advantages of position and possession to my personal ability and the favor of friends? Do I attribute my safety on a trip to ideal physical conditions, my health to certain food, exercise, or sleeping hours, any good points of character to heredity? In short, do I attribute such blessings to human causes? Or do I, instead, give all the glory to God, omnipotent Spirit?"

Isaiah interprets God as insisting on receiving all the glory, and he records these words (Isa. 42:8): "I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images;" and again (Isa. 43:11), "I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour."

Even nature sings God's praise. The orderly appearing of sunshine and rain, the form and color of flowers, the unerring guidance of migrating birds—these and the many other wonders of nature hint the government of supreme intelligence, divine Mind. In Christian Science this government of Mind is understood to be limitless and to consist of the absolute unity of divine Mind, or Principle, with its spiritual expression, man. This relationship of Principle and its reflection allows man no departure from Principle, no opportunity to violate divine law.

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