Unity of Good

Unity of Good

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Title: Unity of Good
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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UNITY OF GOOD
BY
MARY BAKER EDDY

AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES
Registered U.S. Patent Office
Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy
BOSTON, U.S.A.
Authorized Literature of THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST in Boston, Massachusetts
_Copyright, 1887, 1891, 1908_ BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY
_Copyright renewed, 1915_ _Copyright renewed, 1919_
All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

Contents
Caution in the Truth _Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and
death?_
Seedtime and Harvest _Is anything real of which the physical senses
are cognizant?_
The Deep Things of God
Ways Higher than Our Ways
Rectifications
A Colloquy
The Ego
Soul

There is no Matter Sight Touch Taste Force Is There no Death?
Personal Statements
Credo _Do you believe in God?_ _Do you believe in man?_ _Do you
believe in matter?_ _What say you of woman?_ _What say you of
evil?_
Suffering from Others' Thoughts
The Saviour's Mission
Summary

Unity of Good
Caution in the Truth
Perhaps no doctrine of Christian Science rouses so much natural doubt
and questioning as this, that God knows no such thing as sin. Indeed,
this may be set down as one of the "things hard to be understood," such
as the apostle Peter declared were taught by his fellow-apostle Paul,
"which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest ... unto their own
destruction." (2 Peter iii. 16.)
Let us then reason together on this important subject, whose statement
in Christian Science may justly be characterized as wonderful.
_Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and death?_
The nature and character of God is so little apprehended and
demonstrated by mortals, that I counsel my students to defer this
infinite inquiry, in their discussions of Christian Science. In fact, they
had better leave the subject untouched, until they draw nearer to the
divine character, and are practically able to testify, by their lives, that as
they come closer to the true understanding of God they lose all sense of
error.

The Scriptures declare that God is too pure to behold iniquity
(Habakkuk i. 13); but they also declare that God pitieth them who fear
Him; that there is no place where His voice is not heard; that He is "a
very present help in trouble."
The sinner has no refuge from sin, except in God, who is his salvation.
We must, however, realize God's presence, power, and love, in order to
be saved from sin. This realization takes away man's fondness for sin
and his pleasure in it; and, lastly, it removes the pain which accrues to
him from it. Then follows this, as the finale in Science: The sinner
loses his sense of sin, and gains a higher sense of God, in whom there
is no sin.
The true man, really saved, is ready to testify of God in the infinite
penetration of Truth, and can affirm that the Mind which is good, or
God, has no knowledge of sin.
In the same manner the sick lose their sense of sickness, and gain that
spiritual sense of harmony which contains neither discord nor disease.
According to this same rule, in divine Science, the dying--if they die in
the Lord--awake from a sense of death to a sense of Life in Christ, with
a knowledge of Truth and Love beyond what they possessed before;
because their lives have grown so far toward the stature of manhood in
Christ Jesus, that they are ready for a spiritual transfiguration, through
their affections and understanding.
Those who reach this transition, called death, without having rightly
improved the lessons of this primary school of mortal existence,--and
still believe in matter's reality, pleasure, and pain,--are not ready to
understand immortality. Hence they awake only to another sphere of
experience, and must pass through another probationary state before it
can be truly said of them: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
They upon whom the second death, of which we read in the
Apocalypse (Revelation xx. 6), hath no power, are those who have
obeyed God's commands, and have washed their robes white through
the sufferings of