Article March 19, 1990 Issue

"All glorious within"

Glory, splendor, and beauty belong to us as God's children. And we can learn to prove this more and more each day.

Ann Merrie Durick

"The king's daughter is all glorious within."^{Ps. 45:13.} In this verse the Psalmist is describing the splendor of the bride adorned in her brilliant apparel and waiting within the palace for the time of the wedding. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy throws spiritual light on the Biblical meaning of bride. She explains that the spiritual significance of the word means "purity and innocence, conceiving man in the idea of God...."^{Science and Health, p. 582.}

Spiritually considered, "all glorious within" aptly describes our true state of being, as the spiritual image and likeness of God. In accordance with the first chapter of Genesis, Christian Science teaches that divine Love conceived us as the flawless, sinless expression of its goodness. That means man is pure, innocent, unblemished. God's child is as perfect as the divine Mind that made him.

God's nature, His perfection and glory, belong to man as the expression of God's being. The recognition of man's true identity displaces the hopeless darkness of mortal existence with spiritually uplifting light. No matter how dim that light may seem at times, it burns within us, and it cannot be extinguished by any mistaken perception about ourselves or about our fellowman.

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