Article September 23, 1933 Issue

A Golden Standard

ELEANOR WARNER FISH

"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." The incomparably precious quality of gold has long been recognized by mankind.

Scanning a Biblical concordance, one may find numerous references to gold. Altars, candlesticks, pillars, and other parts of the tabernacle and the temple were fashioned of gold or overlaid with pure gold. The holy garments were trimmed in gold. Many ornaments were fashioned of this metal. Gold was used as one of the media of exchange. Gold was considered the most excellent of all the metals. It was found to be the most malleable and ductile of metals and to be unaltered by heat and moisture—all of which verifies its value.

In Revelation, John writes of his vision of "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven." This spiritual city, Mrs. Eddy explains (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 575), "represents the light and glory of divine Science." This great city visioned by John was foursquare; and the angel who talked with him "had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof." It was "pure gold, like unto clear glass," and even "the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass." Not only was the city measurable by a "golden reed," but it was itself of pure gold, bespeaking excellency, purity, perfection, malleability, and impregnability.

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