Article March 11, 1916 Issue

"A word in season"

CAPT. ROBERT E. KEY

It is impossible to derive benefit from Truth ourselves without giving help to those with whom we come in contact. A few words aptly spoken are sufficient to bring about a transformation in the human mind, and a testimony to the power of Truth given with sincerity has often been sufficient to dispel the darkness resulting from years of suffering or of sin. On page 449 of Science and Health we read, "A grain of Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnipotent is Truth." Just as the first breath of spring stirs the chrysalis from its winter sleep, so the first understanding of Truth will stir a mortal from his narrow corner of materiality and turn him toward the light. Perhaps the first glimpse may seem too vague and abstract in its brightness, just as the objects of the outer world are vague to one who has been a long while in the darkness, but a glow is there,—a promise of better things,—and that is enough to stir the poor sufferer from his heavy sleep and to bid him rise and walk.

At first he is cramped and drowsy from the long winter of inaction, while his abode is festooned with cobwebs and the dust lies everywhere. Even the windows are begrimed, and it is only here and there that the light shines bravely through. There is much to be done; but the light is there, outside and inside, and all the dust stirred up by his first footsteps need not deter him from putting his house in order. He can brush away the cobwebs of sense, take down the dingy hangings of materiality, and open the windows wide to the sunlight of Soul. What a glorious breath it is! All his stiffness is gone now. Active and free, he steps forth into the garden of God (the consciousness of good), in which there is no limitation, and wherein everything, as seen by God, infinite Mind, is "very good."

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