Article June 24, 1911 Issue

"HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT"

LINDA G. BAKER

Unexpectedly we had plunged into a tunnel. Even the artificial light had failed us, the blackness and heat were almost overpowering, and as some of us were traveling a strange way, what happened next was as unexpected as the entrance into the tunnel had been. The train rushed out into the brilliant sunshine. We were above the broad, chafing Hudson. Across the water there arose the hills, and at their base the locomotive and houses seemed like a child's toys compared with the grandeur and the bigness of nature's work,—the hills and the clouds and the deep blue sky. We had not known of the beauty awaiting us—to us it was non-existent, though indeed it is always there. To our sense there was nothing but darkness until the train carried us into light and beauty and an elevation above the river.

Memory then took me back to an afternoon some years ago, when, as error seemed very dense and dark, pain very real, and the divine power and goodness very far away, I turned to the Bible, and to our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and read for a long time. Yet I could not seem to get out of the tunnel, the mortal sense of discord. Duty then called me, and as I went to respond I thought that if I were well (as I knew my true self to be), I could do this work. Immediately I was in the light—the pain left me, and I realized the power of divine Love, the goodness of God. This had always been and always is. I was above the waters; the understanding of Truth had carried me to a realization of my birthright of health, peace, joy, to a larger conception of the grandeur of Mind's ideas, before which the pigmy illusions of mortal sense disappeared, were left behind. Peter says, in his first epistle, that we should "show forth the praises of him who hath called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light."

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