The world has never forgotten the goodness expressed by Jesus. This goodness stands as an example for all Christendom. There is nothing inadequate about Jesus' life and teachings. Those who study them find them to be the embodiment of Christliness. That they ever became so misunderstood as to seem out of reach—even in the realm of the miraculous—is not the fault of him who exemplified goodness.
The clarity and beautiful simplicity of Jesus' thought shine through all his sayings. None is more basically illuminating than his rejoinder to that one who called him "Good Master," and asked him what he should do to have eternal life. Within Jesus' answer (Matt. 19:17), "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God," is the first point to be realized— the fact that there is one good, even God.
There is no division, no dilution, no compromise in this one good; all that is good is of God and can have no other source. God, who realizes the oneness of good, is impartial in the bestowal of His goodness. For God, being the only Mind, is conscious only of that which really exists. The five material senses would try to delude men into attempting to divide the one Mind into many minds and the infinite into the finite. The illusory testimony of the material senses must be dropped, and then we can rejoice in that which always has been and always will be—God and His divine manifestation.
