Article November 26, 1949 Issue

GOOD IS HERE NOW

[Original article in German]

ELISABETH MEINSHAUSEN

In the Gospel of John we find Jesus saying (20:29), "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." What do we believe? Do we believe in good or in evil? Many believe in both, some in evil only, few in good only. In Christian Science we learn that good alone is real—that it is spiritual, without any taint of matter or of material thinking. What a joy to learn this, to learn and prove it more and more!

To the material senses spiritual good seems nonexistent. But is this a reason for having no faith in the reality and presence of good? "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed," to quote again the words of our Master, who proved the presence of good as no other. Men like to hope for good; some hope trustingly, others without much certainty. Many are disappointed. But whence come their disappointents? Do they not come from the fact that men in general hope for or expect good in some future time? "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed," believed that good is here now, and not in the future.

Some years ago a student of Christian Science had an experience in which she had to prove that good is ever present. She had been living abroad, and during a time when unemployment had reached its peak in her own country, she returned home to find a position. The suggestions and doubts of her dear ones who did not know of Christian Science were rejected with the reassuring truth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 578), where Mary Baker Eddy gives the spiritual interpretation of the twenty-third Psalm: "[Love] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies," that is, in the presence of erroneous human opinions.

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