Article May 12, 1945 Issue

It Shall "blossom as the rose"

EDITH BAIRD ROBINSON

Never in world history has there been a greater need for vision and rejoicing than today. It is only "where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18). Confused multitudes view what seems a pathless waste. Millions are in a wilderness of thought. How will they be brought out of their darkness?

Christian Science brings again to the nations the vision of the prophet Isaiah, the vision of a desert that shall "blossom as the rose" (Isa. 35:1). That is why Christian Scientists rejoice, for they know there are no barren regions in the land of Christian Science, where Truth tills the soil of human thought.

One of the gems of thought found in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is the definition of "wilderness" (p. 597). The first part of this definition refers to the state of thought in which those not enlightened by true Christianity are now dwelling, a wilderness of "loneliness; doubt; darkness." Reading on, we see that this wilderness is only a temporary state, a "vestibule." Now a vestibule is not a place where one abides, but only a passageway.

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