Article November 21, 1959 Issue

ENGRAVE ON THOUGHT THE TRUTH OF BEING

GLADYS C. GIRARD

"The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition that man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual record of creation, to that which should be engraved on the understanding and heart 'with the point of a diamond' and the pen of an angel." So we read on page 521 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

What a magnificent invitation to thought! This short paragraph was read, reread, and earnestly considered by a young student of Christian Science. It became a constant companion to thought. This student knew that a diamond was used for engraving purposes. Because of the extreme hardness of the texture of the diamond, it can engrave the hardest substance. There arose in her hungry thought a desire to study the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works until the divine ideas recorded therein were so deeply engraved upon her understanding and heart that nothing could ever efface them.

Sorrows and illnesses considerably out of proportion, even from the mortal standpoint, had been the experience of this student of Christian Science during childhood and young womanhood. But now she had found a way out of them, for they surely had not been impressed on her consciousness by "the pen of an angel," by God's angel messages.

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