Article July 17, 1909 Issue

THE DAWN OF TRUTH

ORA S. DREWRY.

In the opening chapter of Genesis, as we learn from the teachings of Christian Science, is the spiritual account of creation—the truth about God and man and the universe. This truth is the epitome of all revelation, the golden text of the Bible. It is at once the basis of all moral advancement, as well as the aim and end of all spiritual attainment. The full understanding of this truth is the spiritual consciousness, or heaven, which to material sense is so far away.

After the statement of the spiritual creation, the record takes up the history of the material counterfeit of man, and of the struggle of the human mind to rise above error and to reach the truth. During a period of more than two thousand years, according to the Biblical account, there were only isolated individuals, such as Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, and caught glimpses of spiritual truth, and kept the torch of understanding burning upon its altar. Then came Moses, with a clearer vision, who, Mrs. Eddy writes, "advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter" (Science and Health, p. 200). The sacred narrative then deals with the history of a nation instead of individuals, as we learn from Scriptural commentators, and in the subsequent ages many nations came into some understanding of the truth of being. When Noah apprehended in some degree the immortality of Spirit, it enabled him to build his ark as a place of safety from the seething waters,—the self-destruction of error, called the flood. Then was unfolded to him God's covenant or promise, that the waters should no more cover the earth, error should no more cover human understanding; that his discernment and reflection of Truth should remain a permanent spiritual possession of the human mind, and a token of this covenant was the bow in the heavens, a symbol or reflection of Love's protection.

More light came to the human understanding with each revelation to these old patriarchs and prophets, and with more light came a fuller comprehension of God's allness and goodness, known as His covenants and promises. As in the advancement of civilization the telegraph, the railway, the electric light, and all that stands for human progress, can never be lost to human consciousness but tend to greater progress, so these flashes of spiritual truth that illumine the pathway of spiritual unfoldment remained to teach and uplift humanity, until they culminated in that great burst of light called the advent of our Saviour. Jesus exemplified and demonstrated the absolute truth of the Science of creation as taught in the first chapter of Genesis; and in him are all the promises of God, "yea and amen," so says the Scripture. He taught that the spiritual kingdom is within consciousness, near at hand, ever present.

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