Article July 29, 1939 Issue

True Education

GERTRUDE B. ARON

Michelangelo, the Italian painter and sculptor, once visited the studio of Raphael during his absence. Michelangelo picked up a piece of canvas from the floor, and upon it wrote one word. "Amplia," meaning larger. When Raphael entered the studio, he at once recognized the teacher's handwriting and his meaning, and from that moment endeavored to enlarge his ideas and ambition, and became a master artist.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has written on page 265, "Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged." Just as the miner seeks the gems and riches that lie embedded in the rocks and caverns of the earth, so does the student of Christian Science search for the treasures that lie within spiritual Truth. Some of these treasures, or spiritual qualities, are love, gratitude, courage, justice, honesty, kindness, and mercy.

A student whose early education was limited, had been made unhappy by the fear that her accomplishment would be incomplete. Humbly she prayed for enlightenment. What a glorious day it was when she found Christian Science! Intuitively she knew that this was what her heart had always yearned for. One day while reading the Bible, her attention was arrested by the Psalmist's words: "I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts." As she pondered these words, her consciousness became illumined, and indescribable joy permeated her thought. She caught a glimpse of God as infinite intelligence, the all-knowing Mind, Life, Truth, Love—the fountain and source of all wisdom—and of man as God's reflection, the offspring of His infinite selfhood, the complete expression of Spirit.

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