Article September 7, 1946 Issue

Windowpanes

IRENE KENT

"The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the windowpane." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 295 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and farther on she adds this statement: "The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error— in order to become a better transparency for Truth."

How simple in the light of this explanation becomes the work of the Christian Scientist in the bringing of healing to humanity. Healing is not necessarily preceded by laborious struggle. Jesus and the apostles healed oftentimes as they journeyed on their way. That many were healed is shown by the fact, as the record states (Acts 5:14), that "believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women." It is written of Peter in the account of his ministry that the sick were brought out and laid on beds and couches in the street that his shadow "passing by might overshadow some of them."

Christian Science shows that it was no personal power possessed by our Master and his disciples, but an understanding of the divine facts of being implicit in man's sonship with God, which healed the sick. What desire and inspiration are aroused in the heart of the earnest student of the Bible as he realizes from his study of Christian Science that through consecration and growth in spiritual understanding he too may exercise this healing power practiced by the Master! Daily prayer and communion with God, continuous mental house cleaning —purifying consciousness of false material beliefs—will keep clear the windowpanes of thought, through which the Christ-light may then easily and naturally shine.

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