Editorial October 10, 1983 Issue

No mysteries in divine Science

WILLIAM E. MOODY

When I was a boy, I loved to search through the pebbles along stream banks, gravel pits, and old roadbeds. Eventually I accumulated a sizable collection of agates and fossils. I remember one fossil that seemed quite a puzzle. I just couldn't figure out exactly what it was. Could it have been the backbone of a prehistoric fish or perhaps the stalk of a sea lily deposited on the ocean floor millions of years ago? The little I knew of paleontology as a child just wasn't sufficient to solve the mystery.

Certainly there are more profound mysteries than a boy's simple attempt to identify a fossil. In fact, much of human existence remains an enigma to the human mind. But the way to solve any mystery, large or small, is fundamentally the same—it's through gaining a better understanding of the questions and the facts involved.

When I became a student of Christian Science, I learned, however, that if one is to begin to solve the great mysteries of being, the understanding needed above all else is spiritual understanding. In the Bible the book of Proverbs proclaims, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding."^{Prov. 4:7.}