A Man beginning to learn about Christian Science earnestly desired to serve his country. Being overage for the armed forces he happily found employment in a defense plant as an inspector of bomber propellers. In order to secure this employment he had to pass an exacting eye test, which he did by applying to himself and realizing the significance of Mary Baker Eddy's definition of "eyes" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 586), "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."

His new work demanded perfect vision. The machine he operated used electrical magnetism to reveal flaws in the metal structure of the propeller blades. Any weakness, even if extremely minute, would, unless perceived and corrected, shatter blades under the centrifugal force of high-speed revolutions.

Blades without flaws were demagnetized following his inspection and advanced toward final approval by the government. Although the majority of the blades he inspected passed the rigid test satisfactorily, he realized shortly after commencing this work that his own thinking needed demesmerizing. For, instead of seeing his fellow workers as ideas of divine Mind, intelligently supporting the nation's right activity, he was yielding to the evil suggestion that workers were wasting time, opportunity, and material. So blinding was the influence of this mesmerism that he felt unable to see it as delusion and to rise above it.

Suddenly he remembered how Saul of Tarsus had been blinded on the way to Damascus after persecuting his fellow men. Were not condemnation and misjudgment evidences of mesmerism? That night he opened his Bible at home and read what Paul learned about mesmerism nineteen hundred years ago: "The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be."

Our friend realized then and there that spiritual vision and spiritual vision alone had healed Saul of blindness. Gratefully he acknowledged that the same Christ-vision could heal him. Great light illumined his thought as he read in Paul's letter to the Romans, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

Where and when could he perceive this spiritual vision? His answer was found in a passage from Science and Health revealing the Way-shower's method. The passage occurs on pages 476 and 477 of the textbook: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." So he knew "where" and "when" to start— with his own thought immediately.

A few nights later, attending a Christian Science lecture, he heard the statement: "The earnest practitioner strives to guide his patient's thoughts from error to Truth, from defectiveness to perfection, from impairment to wholeness, from sin to holiness. The patient needs to free his thoughts from false beliefs. He needs to be demesmerized."

Other angel ideas came daily as he clung to the Christianly scientific definition of eyes given in the first paragraph of this article. He was reminded of how Mrs. Eddy had been led to add the chapter "Animal Magnetism Unmasked" after Science and Health was already in the hands of the printer. At that time our Leader needed additional money for the printer; proofs had been lost with important corrections; there were unaccountable delays, and all the forces of evil seemed loosed to prevent the appearance of the "key" to the Scriptures.

Right then and there Mrs. Eddy handled the claims of animal magnetism and revealed the method of annulling them. This method is described in the fifth chapter of the present edition of Science and Health. Opening to this chapter our friend rejoiced to know that since he could comprehend Christian Science, and to a degree apply it, he would emerge victorious over the indolent, apathetic acceptance of animal magnetism, against which Mrs. Eddy warns on page 102 of the textbook: "So secret are the present methods of animal magnetism that they ensnare the age into indolence, and produce the very apathy on the subject which the criminal desires."

Day by day he grew more conscious of God's perfect government manifesting itself in diligent and intelligent workers and in accurate, skillful work. Each day an increasing number of blades passed his inspection. In a few weeks the increase was fortyfold.

Although the omnipotence of God's government did not find conscious acceptance in the thinking of each and every worker in that plant, our friend rejoiced to see results previously hidden from biased mortal view, a further proof of our Leader's words (ibid., p. 264), "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible."