Article March 9, 1963 Issue

The Importance of the First Commandment

[Of Special Interest to Young Men and Women]

ELIZABETH K. BRISCOE

Mrs. Eddy writes on page 340 of Science and Health: "The First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science." And farther along in the same paragraph she adds, "The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal."

To demonstrate "health, holiness, and life eternal" is a most desirable goal. To attain it, we must thoroughly understand and obey the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3). To understand and obey this commandment, we need to know God.

Christian Science teaches that God is divine Love, Mind, Principle, Life, Spirit. As we ponder the qualities implied in these names for God and strive to exemplify them in our lives, we shall gain an ever-clearer understanding of what it means to have no other gods but the one God. Christ Jesus said (Matt. 22:37), "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

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