Editorial May 24, 1924 Issue

"Let there be light"

Ella W. Hoag

In the degree that God's blessed mandate, "Let there be light," has been understood and demonstrated, it has always dispelled darkness. Because God's nature includes all true light, men have involuntarily desired and reached out for deliverance from its opposite. Many a one has prayed with the Psalmist, "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." Through the centuries this light of God has been desired and sought more and more earnestly as men have become more and more dissatisfied with darkness and its attendant mistakes, disappointments, disasters. The more men have become conscious of the undesirability of evil with its deceptive lies, the more earnestly have they prayed for that divine intelligence which alone is perfect light.

Now God has revealed this light of intelligence in Christian Science; but the Christian Scientist does not always remember that he must use this light if he would rid himself of the evil which claims to hide and thrive in the darkness. He is not yet quite convinced of the fact that the only way out of darkness must be by gaining light, or that ignorance can only be dissipated with intelligence. Yes, the denser the darkness, the brighter and stronger must be the light to dispel the gloom; the deeper the ignorance, the greater the intelligence required to solve the problem.

As a simple illustration: suppose a house has been closed for years and its owner desires to reopen it for occupancy. Never would he imagine he could go—without light—into those darkened rooms and see what of the years' accumulation of dust and dirt should be cleaned out before it could be a fit dwelling place. Instead, would he not immediately draw back the curtains, push up the shades, open the blinds, until all available sunlight could pour into every nook and corner?

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