Article November 23, 1946 Issue

"As a watered garden"

E. VIOLET J. DICKSEE

"They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all" (Jer. 31:12). Here the prophet uses "Zion" not only to refer to an ideal city but to indicate a state of spiritual consciousness.

What a beautiful light Christian Science throws upon the Bible. For example, Mary Baker Eddy in her spiritual interpretation of the twenty-third Psalm (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 578) substitutes the words "spiritual sense" for the word "soul" in the sentence, "[Love] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]." Thus the words, "Their soul shall be as a watered garden," take on added meaning. Our spiritual sense is to be constantly refreshed by never-failing streams of inspiration.

Just as the flowers in our garden would wither and die without water and the grass become yellow and unsightly, so our lives would be barren and fruitless without the heavenly dew of inspiration. It is spiritual sense which makes it possible for us to understand and to demonstrate the great truths of being that are revealed in Christian Science. By it the seemingly waste places of human experience will be made to bud and blossom as a rose, and out of those experiences which to material sense have produced dry and barren ground shall the living waters of heavenly inspiration flow.

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