Article January 2, 1904 Issue

The Science of Truth

MARY B. HOWE.

I had , been reading the article in the June Journal on "Right Thinking," and as I finished, turned my chair so that I could look out of the window at the setting sun and the heavy black clouds rolling up. As I turned, the light shone so directly in my face that it almost blinded me. As I continued to look, however, I soon could see without being dazzled by its brilliancy.

I thought, what a wonderful universe this is, even to mortal sense; what is the sun, what is it that causes the earth to turn on its axis, and what is it that drives the clouds hither and thither, sometimes floating gently, at other times driven furiously in storm, sometimes near the earth and sometimes far above it? I thought and thought, and question on question arose, but the answer to all was plain to me through the understanding of Christian Science.

The activity of any and every form of life has its source in Mind, and by reversal of the evidence before me I could realize as never before how the universe of material sense and its supposed laws is simply a counterfeit of the true universe, which is governed by divine Mind, and is perpetually harmonious. The sun is a grand idea, the symbol of Soul, giving light and life to all forms of existence. Our text-book says, "So Science reveals Soul as God, untouched by sin and death, as the central Life and intelligence, around which circle harmoniously all things in the systems of Mind." "The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest as matter, are not more distinct or real to the material senses than are the Soul-created forms to spiritual sense, wherein Life is permanent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, Life and the universe, ever-present and eternal" (Science and Health, pp. 310, 306).

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