Article July 11, 1925 Issue

The Clear Vision

GERTRUDE L. HATCH

A group of folk were watching the moon rise through thin, changing clouds. The little child of the party exclaimed, "Oh, see! The moon is getting the better of the clouds." Then, later, "Now, the clouds are getting the better of the moon!" To the child this seeming strife continued until the moon rose and shone with radiant clearness above the obscuring clouds. To at least one member of the party came the realization of the moon's supremacy over the clouds and of their inability to affect the moon, other than to obscure its brilliancy from human view. Therein it became symbolic of the seeming conflict between Truth and error, of the complete supremacy of Truth over error, and of the impotence of error to attain any result except in its own apparent ignorance, to appear to obscure Truth; but this ignorance disappears as mankind rises to a fuller understanding of Truth, and will cease even to appear when the zenith of perfect understanding is reached.

A cloud that obscures the perfection of man is the belief that man is separate from God; and so-called evil, including sickness, may be traced to this belief. The truth that is shining is the glorious fact that God is infinite good; that He is always with man; that man is the son of God, who cares for His child in all ways; for the Bible states, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." Whatsoever is born of God cannot help being perfect. When the understanding of this enlightening truth lifts human consciousness above the obscuring cloud of sin, and its resultants, disease and death, then man's true existence will be comprehended, wherein he consciously receives and radiates his true relationship with God. This divine receiving and activity gives sinless pleasures that satisfy, perfect health that cannot become impaired, and life eternal.

John records that after Jesus healed the one who had been sick thirty-eight years, he said, later, to him, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." As recorded by Matthew, when Jesus healed the man with the palsy through forgiving his sins, the scribes said that Jesus blasphemed. Do not these healings show that the cause of disease is sin; and is it not acknowledged that removal of cause is also removal of effect? Does not the scribes' blasphemy indicate that the world was not then sufficiently advanced spiritually to comprehend fully Jesus' words and works? Yet it is cause for gratitude that individuals have progressed morally to the point of willingness to ponder Jesus' words and works,—to ponder them long and deeply. Mary Baker Eddy, the first in this age to do this sufficiently to be healed and to give healing to others, saw and supplied, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and her other writings, the greatest need of humanity,—the need of fully understanding God and man and the unreality of sin.

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