Editorial September 25, 1948 Issue

WE CAN ENTERTAIN ANGELS

John Randall Dunn

The Christian Science textbook, of which Mary Baker Eddy is the author, has well been named "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Not only do the inspired pages of this volume show the relation of mental and physical health to the Science of Christianity, but they contain a veritable key to the spiritual interpretation of Holy Writ which unlocks treasures hid from unnumbered thousands of un-illumined human hearts.

Consider, for example, the light which Mrs. Eddy throws on this statement from the book of Revelation (21:9), "And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." Under the marginal reference "Vials of wrath and consolation," we read (Science and Health, p. 574), "The beauty of this text is, that the sum total of human misery, represented by the seven angelic vials full of seven plagues, has full compensation in the law of Love." Then the inspired author continues, "Note this,—that the very message, or swift-winged thought, which poured forth hatred and torment, brought also the experience which at last lifted the seer to behold the great city, the four equal sides of which were heaven-bestowed and heaven-bestowing."

What a message of strength and comfort is this! In the darkness of some tribulation, who has not longed to find a silver lining for the cloud? Who has not uttered again and again the unavailing "Why?" when a burden has seemed unjust and unendurable? But, according to our Leader's interpretation of John's revelation, these difficult experiences are testing times which should lift one above the discords of sense testimony and lead thought to the very kingdom of heaven, of harmony, itself.

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