Article September 12, 1925 Issue

A Timely Illustration

MARY ALICE DAYTON

An incident recorded in the Sundial column of The Christian Science Monitor provided a valuable lesson for students of Christian Science. A little bird, apparently disabled, hopped helplessly and evidently appealed for aid to a passer-by. It did not resist the friendly hand which took it up, and it felt the kind thought which uncovered the trouble and found a remedy for it. Water frozen on the tip of one wing was quickly melted by warmth, and the ability to fly thus restored.

Sometimes an involuntary encounter with prevailing material conditions brings on an experience which hampers normal action in persons. They are not responsible for the so-called laws of belief which tyrannize over general consciousness, and do not know how to break this oppression. Nor are they aware of the operation of error in such a form. Failing, however, to express the harmony they ordinarily are accustomed to, mentally or physically, they are looking for help outside their present concept of good. They cannot be happy in such bondage, and rebel against limitations. The desire to represent the reality of being as God's image urges a search for the "liberty of the children of God," dominion over their own bodies.

The Love that notes the sparrow's fall is at hand to meet this human need. That which comes to the rescue of the captive must possess a consciousness of the truth of being; it must also know the modus of mortal thoughts and the temporal nature of evil. It should be willing to apply the antidote, and so annul the claim of power which would attempt to bind a child of the infinite. The knowledge that freedom is man's birthright, and that bondage comes through false beliefs in matter and its assumed laws, is revealed in the teachings of Christian Science. This gives every one dominion over untoward situations, exposing the nothingness of whatever enslaves, and confers the enlightenment which enables one to demonstrate the allness of God, Spirit. The law of God, as made known in this divine Science, breaks the mesmerism of matter; and this alone can restore to any individual what Mrs. Eddy calls in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 3) his "sovereign power to think and act rightly."

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