Article August 3, 1929 Issue

Exodus

JEKAB GREENBLAT

On page 406 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Bible contains the recipe for all healing. 'The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.'" Through her revelation of the Science of true being, our Leader has helped mankind to understand the spiritual meaning of the Bible. Not until one student was healed through Christian Science of a so-called incurable trouble for which materia medica had no remedy was he ready and willing to understand that the Bible has a spiritual meaning. Christian Science has shown us how to study the Scriptures understandingly, how to accept and use in our daily living the truth contained therein, and how to reject and discard the dross, or the material interpretation of the letter; and for this, mankind owes Mrs. Eddy deep gratitude.

Studying the Bible in the light of Christian Science, we discover that many words have a scientific meaning which conveys valuable lessons for all. One may ask, for example, What does the word "exodus" teach us? The literal meaning of "exodus"—a going out, departure, particularly the departure of the Israelites from Egypt—is of no practical benefit to us to-day. But the spiritual meaning of the word, if applied to our daily experience, as we are taught to do in Christian Science, is full of valuable lessons. In order to learn these lessons, we are obliged to think aright. Our Leader points out that if we desire to become the beneficiaries of the spiritual riches which the Bible has in store for all, we should learn to think from the spiritual standpoint. In the Preface to Science and Health (p. vii) she says: "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal."

What did Egypt represent to the children of Israel? Did it not represent slavery, bondage, captivity, oppression, tyranny, persecution, injustice, iniquity, mental darkness? To the children of Israel the exodus was the getting away from all these conditions. Is there no necessity in our everyday thinking, speaking, and living for an exodus—a going out, a departure from all forms of mental slavery, bondage, or darkness, conditions to which we have been, and still may be, subjected through believing the testimony of the five corporeal senses? How can we depart from this or that wrong thought, from a false appetite, an evil desire, a cherished sin? If we truly desire to be free, we may learn from the spiritual meaning of the word "exodus" that the departing from these beliefs opens the way to physical and mental freedom.

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