Article July 6, 1940 Issue

"For the day breaketh"

SARAH ANN HUTCHINSON COULDERY

Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day." Jacob's experience illustrates that of many who feel that they are left alone wrestling with error. We learn in Christian Science that this seeming contest is a mental one. We learn, further, that if we turn unreservedly to Truth, realize the presence of God and commune with Him, "the breaking of the day," the light of ever-present Love, will appear, dispelling error and revealing the truth about man, God's likeness.

Mary Baker Eddy defines "Jacob," on page 589 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as "a corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism;" and also as "inspiration; the revelation of Science, in which the so-called material senses yield to the spiritual sense of Life and Love." Jacob had been held in bondage to many false beliefs. Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 308) that, on the night of this memorable experience, "an angel, a message from Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew, or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality. . . . Then said the spiritual evangel: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh;' that is, the light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee."

Oftentimes, when a belief seems to be stubborn or of long standing, the discouraged sufferer may cherish the notion that the error in question cannot be healed, and that no one else ever had so difficult a problem to solve. Thought may dwell constantly on the false mortal sense of things instead of on Principle, thus preventing the demonstration of scientific healing. Thousands, however, in an hour of trial have, like Jacob, allowed Truth to overcome error in their consciousness, and so felt the power of divine healing in themselves. dawning with beauty, as of daybreak.

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