Article March 2, 1912 Issue

"THE UPWARD JOURNEY"

JAMES WARDLE

In the twenty-fourth chapter of Exodus we read: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them." To the Christian Scientist, in his earnest search for Truth, what a wealth of teaching there is in the above command, and with what rapidity it brings to memory other Scriptural declarations, with correlative passages from our text-book, Science and Health.

Action and activity are first suggested,—"Come up to me;" "Awake thou that sleepest," from the belief in sin, disease, and death, from the dream of materialism; "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good" (Science and Health, p. 393)—to the knowledge of God as the only creator, and His creation perfect, harmonious, and eternal; "Work out your own salvation;" "Come up . . . into the mount." It is ours to do our own work, for God's work is finished, and we notice throughout the Bible promises, a condition attached to them, which in all cases implies a reaching out on our part. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace," is the promise; "whose mind is stayed on thee," is the condition. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," said our Master, but he prefaced this glorious promise with the condition, "If ye continue in my word."

From the pleasant and exhilarating exercise of hill or mountain climbing we may draw lessons most helpful to us in our journey upward from sense to Soul. We start out to climb what seems but a small hill, but when we get to the top we see a higher one. and as we go on mountain ranges come into view; but it is only on the higher plane on which we now stand that it is possible for these to be seen. In our spiritual journey we early started to get to the hill-top, to know God as our healer. And this we reached with but little difficulty. When, however, we got to this point, we found that we had only started on our journey, for we saw in the distance, with its top reaching right up to heaven, the mountain-peak which stands for divine Principle. We further found that the way to its summit lay over other peaks,—God is the only Love, the only Truth, the only Life, the only intelligence, the only Mind. This need not discourage us, for with the glimpse of Truth we have had, and the purer air we now are breathing, we shall be able to go on, knowing that this was the pathway Moses trod, such were the heights where Jesus stood, and it is also the pathway the Christian Scientist must tread.

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