“God Is One Lord”
The responsive reading in this week’s Lesson-Sermon begins with Deuteronomy 6:44, which declares, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.”
In an editorial titled “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord” in the July 1, 1905 Sentinel, Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, writes the following:
“I now request that the members of my Church cease special prayer for the peace of nations, and cease in full faith that God does not hear our prayers only because of oft speaking, but that He will bless all the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand nor say unto Him, What doest Thou? Out of His allness He must bless all with His own Truth and Love.”
Mary Baker G. Eddy.
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., June 27, 1905.
Day by day the understanding
Of our oneness shall increase,
Till among all men and nations
Warfare shall forever cease,
So God’s children all shall dwell
in joy and peace.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 157:3)
