Article April 29, 1916 Issue

God's Perfect Creation

LETTIE HUNTINGTON

For weeks the writer had been striving as never before to see only God's creation, and to see man as His manifestation, "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind," as we read in Science and Health (p. 591); but the clouds of material sense seemed to hang heavy and low, and thus to shut out the perfect vision.

It chanced that just at this time a Scientist friend came for a week's visit. So far as the weather was concerned it proved to be a week of continuous storms and clouds, so typical of my own condition of thought that we decided to seek a mental realm in which there was no gloom. This was easy to do, as we had the Lesson-Sermon and all of our dear Leader's writings, and could read them together, enjoying them all the more because of unity of thought. The periodicals came in for their share of attention, and those who have had a similar experience can picture the pleasure and profit we each received, the spiritual uplift which dispelled all sense of gloom and depression.

The morning of my friend's departure came, and we arose betimes, as she had to leave on an early train. As we peered out through the gray of the early dawn, we beheld a beautiful picture, — the earth was clad in a robe of purest white. Later the sun shone out with wonderful brilliancy, and I stood as one entranced, gazing upon a vision which time can never efface. I thought of St. John, when he saw "a new heaven and a new earth" and heard the voice saying: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain : for the former things are passed away." The words of our Master, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," seemed to flash across the horizon, and my heart overflowed with gratitude to that faithful friend through whose labors Truth has again been revealed.

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