Article May 22, 1920 Issue

"Every valley shall be exalted"

LOUIS LONGSTRETH MOORE

In the book of Isaiah it is written, "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." To many the old theological presentation of this prophecy has given a story which was either incomprehensible to the untutored thought or else suggested only the vision of a geological cataclysm. In any event it presented a great material upheaval in order that "the glory of the Lord" might be revealed and that mankind should witness the spectacle.

The purpose of this did not clearly appear, for "the glory of the Lord" seemed already so wonderfully manifested in every direction where the eye could rest upon fertile field, or wooded dell, or foam flecked sea; even these mountains and hills and valleys, with their majesty and verdure, seemed already to be revealing God's glory. So the one hungering and thirsting after righteousness perhaps looked away from this picture, feeling that the prophecy must be true, but surely, as Job had put it, God "doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number."

When such a one turns to Christian Science for a clearer understanding of God, and studies the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, there is presented a different and more wonderful picture. He reads in Science and Health, "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas" (p. 123). Therefore, fortified with a clearer insight into the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures, he joyously turns back to Isaiah's words, not as to a threat of some impending upheaval, but as to a glorious promise of that which is to be accomplished for him as he puts down those things which do not glorify God. He sees that as mortal mind is brought under subjection, every valley of love and kindness and purity shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill of egotism, pride, and self-righteousness shall be made low, and the crooked sensitiveness to evil influences, selfishness, deception, shall be made straight and the rough places of ingratitude, injustice, impatience, plain. When this has been accomplished in his thinking, through the operation of divine Love, what will be the result? "The glory of the Lord shall be revealed" in daily living and activity, "and all flesh shall see it together;" he will be a living witness that "the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."

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