Article September 4, 1954 Issue

TRUST IN GOOD

MYRTLE B. MC COSKER

While reading the Bible, a student of Christian Science was impressed with the oft-repeated admonition to trust in good. She asked herself, "What is good?" Turning to the Glossary of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she read (p. 537): "Good. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action." She noted that out of the seven synonyms for God which Mary Baker Eddy gives in the textbook Spirit was the one used to convey the original spiritual connotation for good.

How easy and natural it is to trust in a God whose nature is omnipotent and omnipresent good! As the facts of spiritual goodness are realized and put into practice, the unseen good becomes tangible in human experiences.

Mrs. Eddy was a lively exponent of trust in good. This is well known to those who have studied her works and read her biographies. An outstanding example of her trust is told by William Dana Orcutt in "Mary Baker Eddy and Her Books." Mrs. Eddy went to Mr. John Wilson, who had acquired the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the third edition of her textbook, requesting that it be published. She declared frankly that at that time she could pay only a part of the required advance payment. However, Mr. Wilson consented to publish her book as soon as the manuscript was ready.

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