Article September 17, 1979 ISSUE

God's allness dispels misery

HELEN W. ENGLISH

A woman driver passed a large billboard that read, "You are in allergy country" and suggested a medicine for relief.

If I accepted allergy as something real, she thought, I would indeed need relief, because I would be bowing down to the idolatry of matter! She knew that arming herself against the suggestion of being allergic to certain substances meant knowing the nothingness of matter as a necessary corollary of the allness of God. It meant seeing what is true of God and His spiritual idea, man. So she restated the first words of the advertisement: "You are in God's country."

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