Article April 1, 1944 Issue

"In thy light shall we see light"

MARION ELEANOR CARLSON

A Bible statement which has aroused much questioning and doubt is that of the prophet Habakkuk: "Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."

Christian Science does not question this statement, but accepts it without reservation and makes it a basic point in its teachings. On page 366 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "The Scriptures give the keynote of Christian Science from Genesis to Revelation, and this is the prolonged tone: 'For the Lord He is God, and there is none beside Him,'" And on the next page she continues, "He dwelleth in light; and in the light He sees light, and cannot see darkness."

A little story, illustrating this point very simply, relates that once there was a dark place, and all the birds and the bees and the wind were talking about it. At last a little bird went off to find it, and when he came back he said, "It is indeed a dark place." And so a little bee went to look, and when he came back, he said, "It is a very dark place." And then the wind went to find it. and he came back and said, "It is a very, very dark place." So they told the sun to go and look, and the sun went, but, the story ends simply, the sun could not find the dark place.

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