Article February 3, 1945 Issue

Demanding the Evidence

GLADYS PERROW WEHR

In the book of Isaiah (35:6) we read, "In the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." Through the study of Christian Science we realize that such a promise is actually demonstrable and not poetic phantasy. The wilderness of human existence may claim cause and effect, and thus quench the student's aspiration toward the Life divine, but unlimited joy is at hand once we learn to drink deeply of the truths contained in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In her textbook (p. 597) Mrs. Eddy defines "wilderness" thus: "Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence."

One who feels lost in loneliness, doubt, or darkness for any reason needs immediate direction. He needs to shut out the gloom and listen. The "still small voice" of Truth never fails to lead the way from sense to Soul. Sometimes we become so fascinated by the process involved in emerging from darkness to light we forget that part of the definition which reads, "Spontaneity of thought and idea."

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