Article February 19, 1966 Issue

Magnify God, Good

MABEL C. BURKE

The Psalmist said, "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together" (Ps. 34:3). Never was the acceptance of this wonderful counsel more needed in the world than right now. There is only one creator and one creation. Everything that God created is good. God made man to express His goodness and to exalt His name. But in a world of conflicting theories and debatable human opinions, the carnal, or mortal, mind at every opportunity magnifies evil.

The comment on radio and television, as well as the description in some daily newspapers, makes use of every avenue possible to put forth vivid pictures of accidents, crime, violence, lack, and war, thus magnifying evil and attributing power to it. Christian Science teaches us to be ever alert to recognize these pictures as deceitful suggestions and to replace them with the truth of the permanency of good through the understanding of God, Spirit, who is All.

When we study the life of Christ Jesus, we find that his purity of thought and action and his Christlike living magnified good. He was confronted on every side by sickness, disease, lack, temptation, and death. But he remained firm and true in his knowledge of good as ever present and ever powerful. Mrs. Eddy writes in "No and Yes" (p. 36), "The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life and harmony." In Science and Health she says (p. 286): "The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself,— good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He is."

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