Article October 29, 1910 Issue

STORM AND CALM

EDITH DOYLE.

THE sea and its waves have served as similes for all peoples in all ages. They are used throughout the Bible, from the days when the flood of waters covered the earth, to the final revelation of the new heaven and the new earth, where "there was no more sea." This theme came to me lately as a fresh inspiration, and perhaps the ideas brought to me may be of some help to others.

One night I fell asleep in an unsettled state of mind, vainly trying to solve a somewhat difficult problem. It was a wild night, and the storm outside seemed to be a part of the storm in my consciousness, so that I dreamed of a great wind and a waste of waters. When I awoke in the morning the wind was still blowing outside, and my mentality seemed utterly confused, with no solid or fixed ideas; and I felt that it would take hours to get to the calm state that was needed to begin the day's work. When, however, I looked up the Lesson for the day, the first selection from Science and Health was, "You must utilize the moral might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error and support your claims by demonstration" (p. 455).

This seemed a direct order, and as I was trying to obey it, trying to realize that evil is powerless to hurt, or even to attack one, the thought of a lighthouse came to me. I thought of it as it stands through the darkness and the storm, with the waves dashing against it, and sometimes entirely hiding it with spray. But the walls were so solid that the waves were thrown back on themselves; they could not even shake the lighthouse, for it was built upon a rock. It did not merely stand firm in the midst of storm, but it threw out a light to guide ships away from danger into a place of safety. Neither the winds nor the waves could quench that light, for it was shielded from the storm, and cared for from within, where all was calm.

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