Article April 13, 1946 Issue

And the Multitudes Glorified God

ELLEN WILES BUNTING

When Jesus spoke the word and healed "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," the multitudes "marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men" (Matt. 9:8). They glorified God! What a beautiful tribute to Jesus' spirituality, to his selfless love! No pride, no greed for personal power or dominion, governed his actions. He did God's work aright, and he showed mankind how to follow his example. To do God's work aright, all sense of personal pride or personal glory must be absent. In deep humility and love we work for God. In quiet places, in patient obedience, we seek Him out, and learn how to show forth His praise so that the multitudes will glorify God.

How sorely needed is the quality of selfless service which Jesus rendered without surcease throughout his entire ministry! The struggle for place and power would often claim to occupy men's time and thought to the exclusion of right and noble aims. In offices, in homes, in places of amusement, in sports, and in professional activities unwholesome competition, rivalry, jealousy, envy, cheerlessness, and unkindness are often common characteristics of thought. Closely allied with such qualities is the love of personal praise, personal gain, personal accomplishment, personal following. False selfhood is the foe which plagues mankind's efforts to progress.

Mary Baker Eddy, whose deep insight into the Bible enabled her to interpret it spiritually, eschewed the suggestions of personal sense, and marked out a pathway for her followers wherein no attempt to indulge personal aims or ambitions could lawfully find a foothold. Her discovery of Christian Science and her founding of the Christian Science movement were the outward proofs of her inward love for and glorification of God. She says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 110), "No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it." She knew that only her conscious reflection of the infinite divine Mind could have enabled her to reveal the true meaning of the Scriptures. She saw the world's dire need for unselfishness, compassion, tenderness love, and understanding, and she pointed out the way by which these Godlike qualities of thought can be manifested universally.

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