Article September 20, 1930 Issue

"Open trail"

MILDRED SPRING CASE

It is almost overwhelming when one begins to ponder the healing that has come to the world through Christian Science in regard to human relationships. Families have been reunited and homes reestablished, friends have been knit together, and feuds of long standing have disappeared like dense fog vanishing before the sunlight. In fact, it is an impossibility for an honest Christian Scientist to retain in consciousness the great truths revealed in Christian Science without a tremendous purification of thought on the subject of human relationships.

Among the American Indians there is an expression used in place of "Good-by" which means "Open trail." So, in Christian Science, we are learning not only to see our brother man as he is and as God sees him, but sincerely and honestly to wish him an "open trail."

Nearly all unhappy relationships contain within themselves the subtle error of self-pity. Before one is awake to its enthrallment it seems to burrow underneath one's efforts to be loving, and to suggest, recurringly, ample reasons for resentment, pride, aloofness, or even retaliation. Then, like the mist that "went up ... from the earth" and blinded mankind to the universal and impartial sunlight of God's radiant presence, it shuts out our vision of man as His image.

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