Editorial July 4, 1959 Issue

"THERE IS NO POWER APART FROM GOD"

John J. Selover

In Christian Science we are assured that God, good, is all-power, and consequently neither sin, disease, nor death is a power. Mary Baker Eddy, who proved her conclusions as to the practicality of the truth in meeting human needs, declared (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 228): "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."

When one is faced with a discordant condition in his life, he is not involved with something that is real. He is faced with a false belief only. The line of battle between Truth and error is not drawn between two real powers, God, good, and evil, for error and its advocates have no actual power. Rather is the line drawn between Truth, which is all-powerful, and error, which is merely a belief in a power apart from God.

It gives one strength to realize that the foe is in reality impotent, causeless, lawless, senseless. The understanding that God is omnipotent and that man is His perfect, spiritual reflection brings into operation the infinite power of God that assures demonstration—victory over discord. This understanding must be more than the mere intellectual grasp of reality. It must be solid conviction of infinite perfection, based upon a clear understanding of the nature of true being.

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