Article October 25, 1930 Issue

"Green isles of refreshment"

EDITH H. UNDERHILL

While traveling over a part of the country which was mostly desert, a student of Christian Science found much food for thought. For miles the way had been through arid waste places devoid of the appeal and charm which sometimes the desert holds. Then, quite suddenly, the scene changed, and lovely cool green fields and cultivated land came into view. What, with apparently the same kind of ground, had caused the transformation from stagnation, dullness, and unproductiveness to growth, freshness, and fruitfulness? The answer was: Irrigation, combined with activity on the part of the workers in the fields.

How like the desert land is the parched and barren human consciousness as yet untouched by, or but slightly moistened with, the healing and saving waters of Life, Truth, and Love, as revealed in Christian Science! The cultivated land is typical of the human consciousness which has felt and responded to this spiritual impetus and is bringing forth fruits, wholesome and good.

The prophet Isaiah, writing of the joyful flourishing of the Christ-consciousness, declares, "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes." What, then, is necessary for the fulfillment of this promise? A nourishing process in individual human thought illustrated by that known to agriculture as irrigation. Webster defines the word "irrigate" in part as follows: "To supply (land) with water by canals, ditches, etc., for nourishing plants." For our purpose could we not render it thus: To supply human consciousness with currents of truth, encouraging the budding and unfolding ideas, awakening and calling forth the indifferent thought, and destroying erroneous and diseased beliefs?

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