Article March 8, 1930 Issue

A Relationship

HENRIETTA A. FIELD

Slowly the setting sun slipped behind the low-lying bank of clouds, which, rising steadily from the horizon, soon overspread the sky and cast upon the lake its dark shadows. So perfectly was the gray of the sky reflected in the water that one could scarcely tell where the two met, or perceive any line of demarcation between them. Nothing could be seen but a pall of somber gray as far as the eye might reach, a dull, heavy gloom that gave no promise of anything but the approaching night.

Then, suddenly, there was a peculiar hurried movement among the clouds, a turning and overturning, as if some unseen hand were brushing them aside, and out of the partial opening came a glorious burst of color that rapidly covered the heaven with its wondrous beauty. Immediately, the lake was transformed into a brilliant sea of color, changed from gloom to glory by its reflection of the glowing sky above.

To one who for many days watched such oft-recurring phenomena, there came a clear realization of the vital truth taught in Christian Science that the human mind, so called, forms and controls the human body, making it harmonious or discordant according to the images reflected upon it. The most casual observer would acknowledge that the ever changing tints of the water, its manifestations of light or shadow, were not in fact the varying moods of the water itself, as they appeared to be, but were the mirrored counterpart of the sky; that while lake and sky were ever one in hue, the sky was the dominating, controlling power that produced a manifestation in exact accord with its own condition of light or darkness.

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