Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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.