Article June 2, 1934 Issue

The Realm of Reality

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Very early one morning an observer who had climbed to a high altitude looked out over a sea of clouds. He himself appeared to be standing on an island, while at his feet fold upon fold of billowy clouds stretched away toward the horizon, blotting out the villages and farm lands nestled in the valley far beneath. Only mountain peaks and the tops of high hills stood out above the mist.

As the observer looked over the vast expanse, the illusion as of a great ocean interspersed with a group of islands, around which cloud waves drifted in billowy lines of foam, was complete. But, as the day dawned and the sun, gilding the cloud sea with golden light, shone out with the warmth and brilliance of a summer's morning, the mists gradually dispersed until the whole landscape lay revealed in one grand harmony of mountains and foothills connected by tree-clad uplands and green valleys, with well-sheltered farms.

The student of Christian Science may draw glorious lessons from nature in its many moods; and if he will look around in times of perplexity, often the answer to a problem may be found in lessons such as clouds and mountains afford.

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