Article May 9, 1970 Issue

The "Clean Room"

DAVID HAUGHTON

A short time ago I was shown round the offices and laboratories of a firm that manufactures magnetic tape for the computer industry. At the end of this tour my guide pointed out a laboratory that could be viewed only through a glass screen. This was known as the "clean room," since all dust and dirt particles had been extracted from the air in the room. Here the magnetic tape was tested, a process requiring absolutely clean conditions.

Thinking about this visit later, I realized that a valuable spiritual lesson might be learned from the conditions in the "clean room." Here was a room for which an air-cleansing plant was constantly producing a pure atmosphere.

The student of Christian Science soon learns that to progress spiritually he must cleanse his thinking of all impurities and then maintain this pure state of thought. The healing effect of maintaining purity of thought was demonstrated many centuries ago by the master Christian, Christ Jesus. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes of the Master's divinely inspired ability to heal: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy."^{Science and Health, pp. 476, 477;}