Article January 4, 1930 Issue

The Realm of Spirit

WALTER CLIFFORD HARVEY

At the close of a beautiful autumn day, in the lengthening shadows, a watcher at a window high above the bustle of traffic in the streets noted a speck far off in the fading blue of the evening sky. It moved perceptibly, and was at first thought to be a large bird. But no, its flight was too steady for that: it was an airplane.

As the watcher became absorbed in following the flight of the airplane, he forgot the noise of the streets below; forgot the objects around him and the thin haze of smoke hovering about the roofs of the buildings and hiding from the city dwellers the clear upper atmosphere. What a limitless expanse the airplane had to travel in; how spacious, compared to the crowded areas below! Suddenly, the thought came to the watcher that the vast region in which the airplane was coursing, in which it could go on and on, almost indefinitely, was faintly symbolic of the infinite realm of Spirit.

What student of Christian Science has not at some time or other, while soaring for the moment on the wings of Truth, forgotten the objects of material sense; forgotten the toil and rigor, the worry and hurry, that sometimes seem to be everywhere apparent? To rise superior to material limitation, to perceive the spiritual fact, is the genuine desire of all lovers of that which is good and true; for by overcoming material restrictions mankind enters into the realm of the spiritual and real. Right thinking, penetrating the mist that appears to hover between mankind and the illimitable expanse of spiritual being, catches glorious glimpses of a great region of opportunity and spiritual development.

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