Article December 9, 1939 Issue

Love Carries Us

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

A STUDENT of Christian Science once dreamt that she was lost in a foreign country, and entirely without funds. In the dream she was greatly perturbed at her predicament, until she remembered a friend whose kindness she had tested many times. The thought of the large sum of money she would require to return home rather dismayed her, but remembering the loving character of this friend, she felt certain that the necessary funds would be forwarded. Thinking thus she felt comforted—and awoke!

Now, though material happenings can never bear exact comparison with spiritual truths, the student pondered somewhat over this dream, endeavoring to discover why she was tempted at times to doubt the willingness and ability of God, the all-loving Father, to come to her assistance in the dream of human existence, whereas the thought of a friend's kindness immediately comforted her in this night dream!

The student finally discovered where her difficulty lay. In the night-dream, she still thought of her friend as one near and available, whereas in the day-dream, error was, in belief, constantly tempting her to think of herself as separated from God, thus making her doubt the nearness and availability of the one omnipresent Mind, "the All-in-all, forever near" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 596).

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