Article January 19, 1957 Issue

IS THERE FROST ON THE WINDOWPANE?

EDITH BAILEY

WHEN a small child, the writer lived in a northern state where the winters were severe. She remembers very well those wintry mornings when the windows were covered with frost. She discovered that by breathing on a windowpane she could clear the frost away from a very small area. Thus she could see the world outside. But what she saw was only a glimpse of the whole. The view was invariably meager, because much of the scene was shut out by the frost on the windowpane.

This experience has come back again and again to the writer, and with added significance since she became a student of Christian Science. This Science cannot be understood if one attempts to divide it into parts and to look only at that which appeals to his fancy. It is the undivided garment, the whole Christ, which provides absolute evidence of divine reality.

God must be understood as All, as the only Life, the only Mind, as divine Love, which is the Principle of man's being. If one attempts to demonstrate divine Principle by accepting only that which is in accord with his human conception of the creator and creation; if he accepts creation as both spiritual and material, as both Mind and matter, as both good and evil, he is not working in accordance with the rules laid down in Christian Science.

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