Editorial July 9, 1955 Issue

LIFE HAS A SACRED SIGNIFICANCE

Robert Ellis Key

Now is the time to rise up and recognize the sacred nature of life. True existence is apart from a material sense of life. It is God, good, expressed as perfect and progressive being. Life is not a series of secular events. It has a sacred significance. In truth there are not two aspects of life, one secular and the other sacred. Any experience which is true is in some degree sacred.

Worship is reverence of and love for the perfection of that which is worshiped. Worship of God is the recognition of the stupendous power and love of God and reverence for all that expresses God's nature. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 5), "The spiritual understanding which demonstrates Christian Science, enables the devout Scientist to worship, not an unknown God, but Him whom, understanding even in part, he continues to love more and to serve better."

What is the object of our worship? Is it an unknown God somewhere away up in heaven? Do we worship a God we must propitiate in order to live safely? Or does God signify the beauty and bounty of divine Love, the energies of divine Life, the stability and strength of Truth, and the presence of Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle? These terms for God express one Being, for God is One, although represented by seven synonyms.

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