Article June 17, 1922 Issue

Helps Along the Way

EMMA HALSEY SAYLES

One of the difficulties that confront the beginner in Christian Science when he encounters a seeming vacuum after having given up some materiality, is the fear that he is losing something real and tangible. If we could only realize that man cannot part with anything real; that man cannot lose any good; that the material never had any real existence, but must be given up in order that the glories of real being, God, and His creation, may appear, we would never fear to part with the beliefs of matter, but would rejoice in being able through the demonstration of Christian Science to prove them unreal. Then would the "Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings."

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 201): "We cannot fill vessels already full. They must first be emptied." When our lives are so filled with the supposititious pleasures and cares of material existence, these "vessels" often seem "already full;" and the trials, disappointments, and sufferings of the flesh are many times the means whereby we see the desirability of emptying them. Then, when human thought has ceased to cry out for the things of sense, divine Love is found to be ever present, and every seeming vacuum filled with right, spiritual ideas, unlimited and eternal,—spiritual ideas which are renewed daily, hourly, in one continuous unfoldment of good.

There are many milestones along the way in our progress towards the understanding of God; and we have the satisfaction and joy of knowing that each obstacle overcome, and each ray of truth gathered into the garner of thought, means that we are nearer the goal.

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