Article May 15, 1943 Issue

Apprehension of Spiritual Facts

JAMES G. MAC DERMID

When we consider the immensity of the stellar universe, it takes little imagination to see how relatively insignificant is our particular solar system, and consequently our individual human experiences. Consideration of these facts should serve to minimize our sense of human problems and to dissipate some inhibitions and idiosyncrasies, but it does not solve the problem of being.

The present-day trend in physical research is toward the recognition that matter is not what it seems to be, but it does not recognize Spirit as the only substance or reality. Mary Baker Eddy strikes at the root of the question in a remarkable statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 209), where she says. "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit."

The Bible abounds with references to the instability of matter. The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews says, "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." And John, from the mount of Revelation, "saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away."

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