Article October 21, 1967 ISSUE

A Mental Stumbling Block Removed

RALPH F. OBERNDORFER

The light of spiritual understanding is available to us whenever we sincerely and honestly pray to receive it. This truth has recently been the experience of the writer. The resurrection of Christ Jesus as chronicled in the Gospels had always been a stumbling block to him, resulting in a disturbed mental reaction. To explain Jesus' reappearance from the grave as a miracle only added to the confusion.

Apparently, proving the following statement of Mrs. Eddy's was necessary for his enlightenment. She says, "We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real as light; but Science affirms darkness to be only a mortal sense of the absence of light, at the coming of which darkness loses the appearance of reality." Science and Health, p. 215;

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