Article June 3, 1967 Issue

The Naturalness of Good

KATE HOLLAND PATTON

Those who study the Bible in conjunction with the writings of Mrs. Eddy become ever more cognizant, through the light of her teachings, of the naturalness of good, and they are less and less mesmerized by the superstitious belief in the inevitableness of evil.

The knowledge that he was the Son of God, that he was governed in thought and deed by his heavenly Father, enabled Christ Jesus to accomplish what the world called miracles, but what to him were simple and natural manifestations of God's infinite goodness and power. He not only believed in but proved the powerlessness, the nothingness, of evil and the allness, the naturalness, of good.

Because of his spiritual origin he was not impressed by mortal laws, suggestions of error, or even by threats of death and destruction. On one occasion a mob took Jesus to a high place with the intent to cast him down headlong and destroy him. We read in the Bible, "But he passing through the midst of them went his way." ^{Luke 4:30;} This is clear evidence that Jesus' understanding of the naturalness of good, the omnipresence of God, caused him to be practically invisible to eyes blinded by rage.