Editorial February 25, 1967 Issue

Access to Beauty

Helen Wood Bauman

Everyone can have beauty—a true sense of it. Even people who have none of the outlines or color or grace that are humanly associated with comeliness have access to what the Psalmist called "the beauty of holiness."^{Ps. 29:2;} Here is a kind of beauty not cognized by the physical senses. The Psalmist connected it with the worship of God when he said, "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness."

Christ Jesus worshiped God "in the beauty of holiness"—in all the goodness and perfection of the divine nature, that is, in the spirit of Truth. He said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."^{John 4:24;} One who has glimpsed Spirit and felt the exalting atmosphere of its presence has seen beauty in a new light; he has sensed something beyond the material view of beauty, something which matter can only dimly represent, something desirable beyond all fleshly standards of beauty. His consciousness is transformed by the light of Spirit, divine Love, and deep in his nature he recognizes the holiness that man made in God's likeness reflects.

Christian Science brings about this transformation, and those touched by Science show the refining influence of Love in their countenances. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says: "Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful."^{Science and Health, p. 248;}

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