Article April 25, 1914 Issue

A Lesson from the Clouds

DOUGLAS H. HUNTLY

When on a visit to Switzerland, my companion and I started early one morning to climb the highest mountain in our neighborhood. A path was pointed out to us which we were informed was the only one leading to the summit. After proceeding on our way for some time, we walked into the clouds, which soon became so dense that we could not distinguish objects more than a hundred paces away. Now on the one side and now on the other would appear precipitous slopes, down which a fall would probably have meant destruction. Often cattle tracks, running in the same direction we were traveling, branched off from the main pathway, and it was only by keeping to what we believed to be the true path that we were enabled finally to walk out of the clouds into the bright sunshine and look down upon a sea of mist and up to the towering summit which we now saw for the first time, and which we scaled later on.

It seemed to me that I might learn a spiritual lesson from this walk, and I was comforted by the thought that if I faithfully kept to the straight and narrow way which the Master pointed out, and which our revered Leader has shown afresh to a waiting and hungry world, I too would escape the many snares and pitfalls besetting my pathway, and would emerge from the surrounding clouds of sense into the sunshine of Soul, "the glorious liberty of the children of God," and finally reach the summit of spiritual perfection. This hope is not based upon blind belief, as was the case in climbing the material path leading up the mountain. Rather is it the faith which unfolds into understanding. Like the schoolboy who, having worked out the simpler sums in mathematics, knows that with due application he will be able to solve any problems confronting him, because he has grasped the basic law of mathematics, so I, having proved a few minor demonstrations in Christian Science, know that if I strictly abide by the rules given us by our beloved Leader, I will in time come to a full understanding of the truth, of which God Himself is the Principle.

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