Article October 23, 1937 Issue

Resolving Things into Thoughts

[Written Especially for Young People]

ENDA L. CARTER

As young students of Christian Science we are often faced with problems which seem extremely difficult for us to solve. At times discouragement may make us believe that they are unsolvable. And yet, with even a very limited understanding of Christian Science, we are not content to accept error's verdicts, knowing that the fault lies not in the Science itself, but in our limited understanding. Then it is that we try again, and with greater humility and consecration increase our understanding through a more persistent application of the truth we have so far understood and by a further study of the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In our study we have sometimes come across these words in Isaiah: "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel."

Mountains and hills usually typify uplifted thoughts. But sometimes they symbolize an erroneous belief in the substantiality of matter, seemingly immovable, and overpowering in its bigness. In other words, such mountains typify the very errors which seem to confront us, and which appear so big, so powerful, so dominating.

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