Article November 15, 1958 ISSUE

BENEDICTION OF THE WILDERNESS

ALICE EMERSON BOYSEN

Few individuals would choose a wilderness experience. A wilderness is usually thought of as a wild, uninhabitable, and forbidding place or a mental state of doubt and darkness, something to be definitely avoided.

But through the irradiance of light gained in Christian Science, we learn that wilderness experiences are of great value, for they can be made to coincide with the spiritual definition of "wilderness," given by Mary Baker Eddy on page 597 in the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Part of this definition reads, "The vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence."

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