Article September 25, 1943 Issue

"Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing"

MARION ELEANOR CARLSON

Christian Science gives us positive assurance that the real universe is indestructible, and that life is continuous and eternal. This assurance is greatly needed today when the world picture is one of destruction, and students of Christian Science rejoice in every small experience which helps them to see more clearly the true facts of being.

One individual is grateful for the unfoldment which came at the time of the first series of raids on English coastal cities. She was with a group of people who had hoped to visit Europe and were regretting that places of historic interest and beauty might be destroyed. While they recognized that this destruction was insignificant compared with the many phases of human suffering brought about by the war, they could not help thinking of the travelers who for many years to come would be saddened by the evidences of suffering and by bitterness and hatred should they prevail after the war was over.

The writer, a student of Christian Science, later in the evening, began to think about the stories of her mother's childhood in a European country. She had once pictured Europe not as the homeland of many interesting nationalities with their different languages and customs, of Old World cities with museums and art galleries, but only as her mother's country, a place of green pastures where cattle roamed peacefully, and where a child could lie contentedly in a meadow, watching for and listening to a lark. For her mother had often remarked that one of the sights of her own land which she missed most was that of the skylark rising from its nest on the ground, singing with a continuous stream of melody and ascending in a straight path to the heavens until it was lost to sight.

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