Article February 20, 1932 Issue

Magnifying Good

CHARLES A. GRIFFITH

The holy exaltation of thought much in evidence throughout all the books of the Bible is noticeable in the thirty-fourth Psalm, in the third verse of which the Psalmist exclaims, "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together." Here the word "magnify" is doubtless used in the commonly accepted sense of glorifying or extolling God, in recognition of His goodness and mercy.

God is infinite good; so when the Psalmist cries, "O magnify the Lord," is it not equivalent to saying, O magnify good? Through the lens of spiritual sense it is possible to see good and its expression as the only reality, and to classify evil as unreal. The nature of good is not changed or enlarged by this process; but one is enabled to see it as it is, the real and the true, infinite and omnipresent, while, as Mrs. Eddy declares in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 99), "the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition."

As one begins to comprehend even a little of the magnitude, the completeness, the allness of good, one is impelled to a sense of humility. How natural that Jesus, who knew God as no other ever knew Him, should declare, "The Son can do nothing of himself," and, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein"!

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