Article April 9, 1910 Issue

THOUGHT PICTURES

CARL E. HERRING.

A little girl who had been watching her mother make pencil sketches, finally said, "Mama, I know what drawing is." Her mother asked, "What is it, dear?" The child replied, "It's just thinking, and then making marks around the think."

Ever since the dawn of civilization history has recorded over and over again the efforts of the human race to learn how to make "marks around the think." Beginning almost before recorded history, we find the effort took the form of human sacrifices, and from this we pass from one weary stage to another, down to the present time. The Nazarene Prophet was so little understood that a whole race of theologians arose who filled thousands of volumes with printed matter, not one line of which presented man as made perfect, but all seemed intent upon putting in his hand of flesh a pencil with which to make marks upon the sand. This was succeeded by a still more material development, in the way of scientific investigation into the laws of being; the true concept was pushed still farther back on the shelf, with the result that the theologians and scientists, ancient medieval, and modern, have brought such confusion, in trying to teach us how to make marks around our "think," that our vision has become obscured.

It remained for one to outline for us the Christ-idea, "undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses" (Explanatory Note. Quarterly). Mrs. Eddy says that "thought is borrowed from a higher source than matter" (Science and Health, p. 267). and what are all our prayers and supplications, our vain efforts to define the Godhead, our study of nature to find the law of Spirit, but an effort to drag thought from its pinnacle into the dust. Thought neither came from dust nor can it be portrayed in dust.

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