Article August 23, 1930 Issue

Overcoming Seasonal Heat

MILO D. WEBSTER

DURING the writer's childhood and young manhood, and even after he had adopted Christian Science into his daily life, he entertained the belief that his constitution was specially adapted to hot weather. He was not always so successful in withstanding the winter months, but when it came to the hot summers he felt he was in his native element. In fact, the hotter the weather the better he liked it. It was with some misgivings, then, that in recent years he noticed he was becoming increasingly affected by the summer temperature. His former belief, not resting on Science, being unstable, he found his conviction reversed and his health seemingly undermined during the so-called seasonal hot spells.

Sitting in the congregation at a Christian Science service on a hot Sunday evening, he was suddenly attacked by a strong apprehension that he was likely to be overcome by the heat. Although the impulse to leave the room was urgent, yet with the temptation came also a way of escape, as Paul promises in his first letter to the Corinthians. So filled with helpful ideas was his consciousness that he quickly found himself uplifted spiritually and comfortable physically, although there had been no change in the temperature of the room. And the best of it was that these true ideas about heat did not cease with that experience, but have continued to come into his consciousness to happify thought and experience amidst the seeming stress of the summer season. Our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, states in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 265): "The atmosphere of the human mind, when cleansed of self and permeated with divine Love, will reflect this purified subjective state in clearer skies, less thunderbolts, tornadoes, and extremes of heat and cold."

The sunlight and the rain are believed to be useful and nesessary to the due ripening of the world's food supply; and this instrumentality of good cannot be seized upon by evil and used as an instrument of discord to men. In the book of Daniel in the Old Testament there is an account showing that the three faithful Hebrew statesmen found that even Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, heated seven times, could not destroy their existence, or even their comfort, under the government of God. Doing the right thing, and thinking the right thoughts, they could not be harmed—no, not even in the fiercest fire.

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