Acknowledging the Good that Lies Concealed to Mortal Sight

[parthens]

“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men . . .” (SH 332.)

To sense, it was a cold November day in Boston, 1884, when Mrs. Eddy introduced her (unpublished) sermon on 1 Peter 3:12.- “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous…”:

“Coming hither this afternoon, I looked upon the Common, and there came over me a saddening sense of autumn. The glory were was departed, but with a sudden transformation of belief, Nature looked her best, clad in green velvet bedecked with jewels having in her train song and sunshine; nymph and naiad. Touched by Divine Science, from the soul of things, the transfiguration of sense, the outlook of immortality amid earth’s fading forms brings again the spell of Spring.”

The quote above runs parallel to a passage in The Blue Book:
“One day Mrs. Eddy said to a student, ‘Are you working?’
He began to tell of his hours of study and work.
She said, ‘When you see old age, do you declare that Life is eternal activity, beauty and joy?
When you see the leaves falling and hear the wind blow, do you declare that there is no change, decay or cold?
When you see deformity and disease, do you declare that man is made in the imageand likeness of God?’
The student answered, ‘Mrs. Eddy, I am not working.’”

All of these quotes provoke me to be alert always to the fact that at any given moment, I am subjecting the world around me either to Mind-generated treatment (which is Christian Science practice) or mortal mind’s misreading of it (which is malpractice).

[BarbaraW]

Thanks so much for sharing this. Such a small thing to do. I think I forget its importance.

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