Article April 9, 1955 Issue

BEHOLDING IN SCIENCE

REBA RANDALL OMER

One of the basic facts we learn in Christian Science is that good is natural. This is in direct accord with the First Commandment (Ex. 20: 3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

The Bible tells us that when the rich young man came to the Master to inquire of him how to attain eternal life, "Jesus beholding him loved him" (Mark 10:21). Jesus did not begin with the so-called problem of a young man who was so engrossed with material things that he had been unable to see the spiritual facts of being. Rather, did he behold him in Science as the image of his Maker, intelligent, loving, spiritual, and perfect.

The belief that matter is substance, which the young man had cherished, needed to be exchanged for the understanding that substance is spiritual, incapable of discord or deterioration. Jesus turned the young man's thought to a right sense of good when he said (Matt. 19:17), "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."

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