Article May 26, 1951 Issue

PUTTING GOD FIRST

WILDA M. INGELS

One cannot learn too soon that putting God first can translate one's experience from dissatisfaction to entire satisfaction. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy encouragingly commended the receptivity of young people to right. She says (p. 236), "While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth."

Many in the process of growing up are realizing the necessity of learning about God, for without this knowledge one cannot know man. The first chapter of Genesis, twenty-sixth verse, declares, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." To understand God, Spirit, as the only creator is to understand man as His image, or reflection.

Through the study of Christian Science we comprehend Deity as divine Principle and prove man's unity with Him. Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 124), "The universe, like man, is to be interpreted by Science from its divine Principle, God, and then it can be understood; but when explained on the basis of physical sense and represented as subject to growth, maturity, and decay, the universe, like man, is, and must continue to be, an enigma." When one actually glimpses the power accompanying the understanding of man's relationship to God, he is eager to bring this knowledge to bear upon all of his activities.

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