Article June 9, 1956 Issue

THE PRESENCE OF GOD

WALTER J. CONOVER

Wherever one is, there is the healing, saving presence of God, of Life, Truth, Love. The Psalmist sang (Ps. 139:8), "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there."

Mary Baker Eddy was so aware of the allness and goodness of the divine presence that by her understanding of it she healed both herself and others. In her writings she elucidates the ever-present divine Principle, God. On page 287 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy asks these arresting and illuminating questions: "God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all?"

Through his study of Christian Science the writer has gained a much more satisfying sense of this divine omnipresence. On one occasion he was attending a church committee meeting which did not conclude until quite late at night. All that day he had been burdened with a feeling of heaviness and weariness.

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