Editorial January 16, 1932 Issue

"Look up, and behold"

Duncan Sinclair

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 134) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Like Elisha, look up, and behold: 'They that be with us, are more than they that be with them;'" and she begins the next paragraph with the words, "Error is only fermenting, and its heat hissing at the 'still, small voice' of Truth." Wonderful words, conveying as they do a great sense of God's presence and power! And how similar in this respect they are to those of the sixty-second Psalm, "In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God." The words of Mrs. Eddy and the Psalmist just quoted express intense faith in and reliance upon the protecting and saving power of God; and they help to establish this faith and reliance in all who read them understandingly.

If it were possible for Elisha to display such wonderful faith in God, and for the Psalmist to testify with such assurance to His protecting and saving power, surely it should be equally possible, if not more so, for those with a knowledge of the teachings of Christian Science to trust Him, since these teachings reveal God more fully than He ever has been revealed before.

The Almighty was known to the Hebrews as the deliverer of His people, the rewarder of the righteous, the refuge of the oppressed. Christ Jesus revealed Him as the Father of all, who cared for all His children with ineffable tenderness; and Christian Science, accepting the truth about God revealed by the prophets and by the Master, and stating it in scientific terms, renders it readily available to men for the solving of their every problem.

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