Article October 21, 1916 Issue

Love's Radiancy

ALLIE MORGAN

Sometimes the great lessons of Truth are unfolded to the human thought through the small trifles in our every-day life. The following incident, though simple in itself, nevertheless brought out so much that was helpful to the writer that she feels impelled to pass the experience on to others.

One evening just at dusk she was walking in the suburbs of the city along a road which at that point was quite light, but a short distance ahead a railroad bridge cast such a dark shadow that the road seemed to lie in absolute blackness. It had rained very heavily the day before, and it was necessary to pick one's way very carefully. Immediately there flashed through her thought the question how she would ever be able to keep from plunging into the mud; but in order to reach her destination there was nothing to do but to go ahead, and so she hesitatingly took the first step into the darkness. To her surprise she found that what, viewed from a short distance, had seemed to be absolute blackness, on nearer approach was sufficiently illuminated so that the road at her feet was plainly discernible; and so it was all the way along.

As she stepped out of the shadow into the light again, there came to her a sense of joy in having made the passage safely; then there flashed through her mind the thought of how typical this little experience was of our progress in Christian Science. At first the way is brightly aglow with the light which the joy and gratitude of our first healing brings to us; then as we walk along this brightly illumined road which Science points out, we are sometimes confronted with problems which seem to cast dark shadows across our way, and in looking ahead at them they appear so black that we think it will be impossible for us to go on. But we have already learned enough to know that in order to reach our goal we must go forward, since turning backward will never bring us to our destination; for, as Peter said when this thought was presented to him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life."

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