Article February 22, 1941 Issue

Obedient to the Heavenly Vision

KATHERINE PUFFER

RECENTLY, when impelled by the earnest desire to arouse the thought of another to more active effort to find the Christ as revealed in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the writer recalled her first experience in glimpsing the Christ, Truth. Herself an invalid in constant pain, she had turned to Christian Science for healing. After six month's study she awakened one night with the usual sense of pain. She turned immediately to Christian Science, and as clearly as a voice speaking came the thought, "God is Mind, and it is good thoughts that reflect Him." Instantly the pain disappeared, and a sense of God's nearness and everpresence was experienced for the first time in her life. From that moment she knew that Christian Science was the truth, and that it healed. As this experience was related with the purpose of arousing another sufferer to the simplicity and the sureness of the Christ-appearing, a deep sense of the sacredness of this experience came to the writer.

As memory traveled in retrospect down through the intervening years, there came a glimpse of what might have been achieved had thought maintained the heavenly ideal which was then attained.

At the moment of this illumination, it seemed so easy to think good thoughts, God's thoughts, but subsequent experience did not prove it to be so. Mortal mind, so called, did not easily acquiesce in this exalted purpose. Mrs. Eddy, desirous of impressing her students and readers with the value and importance of obedience, has written (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 119): "The nature of the individual, more stubborn than the circumstance, will always be found arguing for itself,—its habits, tastes, and indulgences. This material nature strives to tip the beam against the spiritual nature; for the flesh strives against Spirit,—against whatever or whoever opposes evil,—and weighs mightily in the scale against man's high destiny."

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