Article January 5, 1929 Issue

What Are We Looking For?

KATE W. BUCK

In the eleventh chapter of Matthew is found the loving testimony of Jesus concerning John the Baptist, evidently in reproof of misjudgment directed toward John by those who failed to comprehend his mission. The Master asked: "What went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?" He then pointed out, with clearness and forcefulness, that the way of ease and luxury is found in kings' houses, and that John, though roughly clothed and treading a way that seemed toilsome and difficult, was a great prophet, as well as the true and chosen messenger sent to prepare the way of the Christ, Truth. Again, we find Jesus teaching in the temple and saying to his wondering hearers, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment," words in accord with the earlier utterance as quoted above.

Everyone needs the vision of the Christ, Truth, the God-given ability to see good continually, and nothing but good, and to abide in the consciousness of good. Only so can the seeming evidences of evil be refuted and set aside. Christian Science teaches and acknowledges "now and forever God's supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 521); and in the paragraph following these words she asserts that "the harmony and immortality of man are intact." This, then, as correlative with the teachings of Jesus, is what we are to see; this alone have we a right to look for.

Childlike surrender of whatever may seem to be unlike God, good, annihilates evil. If facing something troublesome, whether sickness, lack, or sin, one can surely know that it is not of God; that He knows nothing of it, because His very nature is infinite good. Then, can we not also strive to realize that God and what God knows is all there actually is? Through comprehension of this great and eternal truth every evil seeming must necessarily vanish from thought and experience.

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