Article October 31, 1914 Issue

Growth

EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH

For long centuries natural scientists have sought a solution of the mystery of growth as manifested in nature; but it was not to be found by material seeking. When, however, the light of metaphysics was turned upon the question in scientific analysis by Mrs. Eddy, a true explanation was given, and she wrote, "God creates all through Mind, not through matter, . . . the plant grows, not because of seed or soil, but because growth is the eternal mandate of Mind" (Science and Health, p. 520). In reality, therefore, the material growth which seems to take place is a mistaken sense of the eternal fact that growth is a manifestation of Spirit, and not of matter.

Throughout the ages, mankind have marveled at the secret of growth. Following what appears to be decay, death, and desolation, comes the perennial springtide, when the buds unfold, the waving grass and the foliage of the forest become luxuriant. Like the sun breaking through the mists of the morning, the fact of spring forces its way, as it were, through the dark shroud of winter, dispelling the disharmony of the elements, the bleak outlook yielding to the gentle touch of summer.

Even to mortal sense it is evident that so-called nature is apparently responsive to a restorative influence whose life-giving properties are seen in the regenerative processes of the seasons, thereby hinting at the eternality of life. But for the belief that we seem to "see through a glass, darkly," the fact of a forever spiritual existence would become apparent, and the almost universal belief in dissolution and death would be relegated to the realm of nothingness. As the seeming scales of sense fall from our eyes, the false concept that nature is matter and at the mercy of discord and destruction, is replaced by the truth as voiced by Mrs. Eddy in the beautiful article in "Miscellaneous Writings" entitled "Voices of Spring," in which she says (p. 331): "In sacred solitude divine Science evolved nature as thought, and thought as things. This supreme potential Principle reigns in the realm of the real, and is 'God with us,' the I AM."

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