Article September 22, 1934 Issue

"Come thou ... into the ark"

ELMA S. WHITMORE

"Come thou and all thy house into the ark," was the divine command to Noah thousands of years ago when it was revealed to him that a great flood of waters was to cover the face of the earth. Paraphrasing this, one might say that "Come thou with all thy thoughts into the safety of immortal thinking" is the all-embracing demand of Christian Science today when a deluge of mortal suggestions threatens to inundate human consciousness. While the demand may seem exacting, it is also protective.

Great care, we read, was to be taken by Noah not only in the building but also in the protecting of the ark. He was directed to build it of gopher or cypress wood and to pitch the ark within and without, thus making it impervious to the waters. Then it mattered not how severe the deluge or how high the rising of the waters—the ark would rest above the flood.

Comprehending the mental process indicated in this account Mrs. Eddy, on pages 592 and 581 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in part defines "Noah" as "Knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all that is spiritual," and "ark" as "safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter." Gaining the knowledge of the indestructibility of all that is spiritual and eternal and the nothingness of matter and of false and temporal mortal beliefs enables one to rise above the flood of materiality and to rest safely in the understanding of what is true concerning God and His spiritual creation, including man.

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