Poem June 13, 1903 Issue

An Interesting Possibility

W. P. W.

In the book "Pulpit and Press," Mrs. Eddy quotes from two poems by John G. Whittier, and adds this footnote: "About 1868, the author of Science and Health healed Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient pulmonary consumption."

In the book of "Whittier's Poems," there is one entitled, "The Clear Vision." It is dated "2nd Month, 1868." While not scientific in every part, it so clearly portrays the typical effects of Christian Science that it seems not improbable that this is a recognition of that visit. Five stanzas of the poem read as follows:—

I did but dream. I never knew
What charms our sternest season wore.
Was never yet the sky so blue,
Was never earth so white before.
Till now I never saw the glow
Of sunset on yon hills of snow,
And never learned the bough's designs
Of beauty in its leafless lines.

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