Article November 18, 1944 Issue

Graven Images

W. DHU AINE PEASLEE

All of us would, if the question were asked, assert emphatically that we do not make graven images and serve or fear them. Yet the implications of this question led one student of Christian Science to search the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in order to gain more light on the second commandment: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.... thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them."

Through the illumination of his understanding of God as the absolute basis of all being, as omnipresent and omnipotent Love, which this study brought him, the student was permanently healed of a painful and disfiguring ailment of long standing.

Centuries after Moses was led by God to lay this great commandment before the people of Israel for their guidance, Jesus came with his uplifting message to all the sorrowful and heavy-laden of his time, and, with a deep understanding of the loving fatherhood and motherhood of God, developed this theme in striking and beautiful sayings and parables. All Bible students will recall the rich man, who said he would pull down his barns to build greater ones in which to store all his fruits and his goods— his graven image of trust in material wealth to which he was in bondage.

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