Article January 15, 1944 Issue

The Burning Bush

ANITA ST. JOHN KELLY

Many valuable lessons are to be learned from the Scriptures, which, when properly understood in Christian Science, point the way to salvation from sin, sickness, and death. Experiences similar to those related in the Bible are repeated as mankind learns to make its way along the path from sense to Soul. Christian Science sheds its benign light upon our way, illuming our thought and enabling us to profit by the lessons thus learned.

The experience of Moses at the burning bush is one that is replete with inspiration when viewed through the lens of Christian Science. There, at the burning bush which was not consumed, Moses turned away from a material sense of causation and power to the omnipotence of God.

We remember that before this, Moses, swayed by human anger and resentment over the many injustices being practiced against his people, had killed an Egyptian. Fearful of punishment, he fled the country, going to the land of Midian, where he remained several years, marrying there and serving "his father-in-law by caring for his flocks. What lessons of patience and forbearance he must have learned alone in the desert! Here he had time to meditate on the folly and uselessness of human reprisal and revenge, and to draw close to God. There with his flocks he must have begun to learn the lessons of humility and meekness which ever after characterized him in such a marked degree. There his thoughts and motives were purified and exalted to a high and holy purpose.

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