Article September 10, 1910 Issue

ONE PARAGRAPH IN OUR TEXT-BOOK

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS.

One beautiful Sabbath morning I found myself fairly well started on my eleventh reading of Science and Health. I had just picked up the book when my eye fell upon a sentance on page 63, as follows: "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit." Strange, was it not? but ten times I had read the paragraph which opens thus, and now for the first time did its true significance appeal to me. I had just been having some disturbing business experiences, and these may have helped me to a little added light. How many times are our eyes opened by having some difficult problem to solve! "If man is indeed the offspring of Spirit," I queried, "can he be moved by any human will, this way or that? What an astounding thought! Are there in reality any complexities in Mind?" Instantly my thoughts reverted to my recent business difficulties, and through this illuminating sentence they were fully and satisfactorily overcome. In ten readings I had failed to grasp a very apparent truth; now the simple words were both a treatment and a benediction.

The second sentence of the paragraph reads thus: "The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry." How completely does this verify the opening words. Ancestry! Has not the human family boasted of signets, seals, heirlooms, and inheritances—mere baubles, which any robber might purloin? In the light of these words, the most precious of earth's jewels must glitter in vain. Then came this sentence: "His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence," another declaration of astounding verity that opens to us possibilities at present unknowable.

The next sentence began as follows: "Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being." Yes, "primitive and ultimate"—the first and the last, and how, therefore, can the Adam-man—lame, halt, and discordant—have any claim upon us? Does not God's perfect image stand alone as a wise creator's finished handiwork? Further we have this declaration: "God is his Father,"—and yet how we have doted upon our earthly fathers and mothers, forgetting Jesus' request to "call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Then comes the closing affirmation, which serves to illumine and complete the entire paragraph: "And Life is the law of his being." In these eight words every law of mortal making is swept out of existence, for we know intuitively that in the spiritual realm all is governed by the law of Spirit, of divine Mind.

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