Article April 28, 1923 Issue

The Present-Day Children of Israel

CARRIETTA F. SIMPSON

THE Scriptural account of Moses and the children of Israel is prolific with encouraging and helpful lessons, which may be of great assistance to the children of to-day,—those who are seeking and searching for the land of promise, the realm of peace, health, happiness, yet find themselves wandering hopelessly and helplessly about in the desert and wilderness of doubt and discouragement. Our heavenly Father of to-day is the selfsame God of our fathers,—the God of Abraham, the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob; and the loving, changeless, eternal I AM will deliver us out of the hand of the Egyptians, and bring us up "out of that land unto a good land and a large," even "unto a land flowing with milk and honey."

While the Egyptians laid heavy and wearisome burdens upon the sorrowful children of Israel many hundreds of years ago, they were not more painful or oppressive than those inflicted upon suffering humanity to-day by the equally hard taskmasters expressed in all the supposed laws of matter. The exodus from discord and suffering—from all burdens—is, however, for every one now, if we but heed the experiences of those earlier searchers for Truth, and truly learn to follow the guidance of divine Love humbly, obediently, patiently, without murmuring.

How many of us have had Christian Science—the divine law of God's protection and deliverance, the understanding of which leads to the land of promise—presented to us, often many years before we were willing to accept it! But arrogance and fear, perhaps fear of criticism or fear that Christian Science could not heal where material means had failed, have blinded us to the liberty at hand; and so we have continued our life of slavery to sorrow, suffering, misery.

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