Editorial March 20, 1943 Issue

Behold

Evelyn F. Heywood

WHAT is it that we behold? And beholding, how quick are we in accepting or rejecting it? Much depends on the initial stage in our beholding, in our attitude of endorsement or repudiation. When sickness, weakness, all forms of evil appear, do we know them to be illusion? When the opportunity comes to see good where prejudice and partiality would invite us to ignore or deny it, do we sometimes refuse to respond? "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy," said Jesus to his disciples; and before he left them he prayed that they who had been with him might behold his glory. To behold the glory of the Christ is to experience its radiance.

Blindness and paralysis, leprosy and death, paraded before the pure sight of Jesus. But because of his understanding of spiritual law they were replaced with eyes that see, with buoyancy, with health and life. And how patiently he sought to teach men that spiritual enlightenment is the heritage of man! "Having eyes, see ye not?" he asked them, referring not less to their blindness of heart than to their visionless lives.

When men learn that sight is spiritual, not material, blind eyes will see, and the limited, the ineffective, the blurred, the out of focus, will be restored to wholeness. But not only this. Men will behold in judgment and justice, in gentleness and mercy, a universe which is filled with true glory.

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