The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-23


much about its daily problems
What she then learned OF the
world and its ways may well have
aided her later in making her dis
covery quickly ineligible. phras-
ing It in practical terms and prov
ing IT in daily demonstration.
There is one more aspect OF Mrs
Eddy's childhood environment that
must be noted Her early life was
set in an atmosphere Of great
physical beauty. From the door
yard Of her comfortable farm
home, with its abundant homely
duties. stretched broad piano.
rama of mountains and valleys
almost poignant in their charm
and endless in variety. Rugged
hills. a noble river. brooks and
forests, orchards and cultivated
fields. churches. schools and vii
lagos. spread out before her IN a
grand and inspiring vista. To look
upon this scene today. not greatly
changed, is TO be reminded in
evitsbly of phrase Mrs. Eddy
used long afterward to describe
the infinite range of a conscious
ness liberated by divine Science;
namely. conception unconfined."
Neither Jesus nor Mrs. Eddy
then, were strangers to the ways
of the world. Both, as children,
were familiar with great variety
of human affairs. Both felt as
children the tragic need Of the
world for spiritual light Between
her childhood days and the dis
coyery of Christian Science the
human experiences of Mrs. Eddy
tended to impress upon her this
great need Intense physical suf-
fering, over long periods of many
months, turned her thoughts TO
various healing systems. and acted
as a goad to drive her on from
one to another until all had failed.
Then in her hour of sorest need
she came upon the one and only
true system OF divine Mind.
Revelation Brings Healing
Utterly unlike the conditions
that preceded Paurs experience
were those which brought Mrs.
Eddy to the point of revelation.
/ Her opening consciousness of God,
as an ever-present. loving, and
compassionate Father. brought to
/ her in that hour of great human
need an astonishing though, as
she afterwards saw, perfectly nat
ural physi cal transformation.
There entered her consciousness on
| that occasion a concept of the
truth Of being which brought forth
quick and satisfying healing.
| Later as her writings show a
sense of the motherhood of Cod
tender compassionate, and all
embracing God-took deep root in
Mrs. Eddy's consciousness. 1t for
ever replaced that sense of God
which prevailed so generally in her
childhood days-the sense of God
as a stern, humanity just, unyield-
ing Father; God who required
IAN eye for an eye. and a tooth for
a tooth" God who demanded an
Isaac as His just due. All this
sense finally went forever. though
not the righteous sense that evil
must and ever does destroy itself
The beloved disciple had declared
that God was Love, and Mrs. Eddy
now began to understand what
these words meant.
Yet the full vision was not
vouchsafed to her at once. AS II
came to the great Nazarene, il
came also TO her. Her own recov-
cry from the effects of an injury
received in an accident was i'm
mediate. Yet the years of patient
prayer and search which followed,
for larger understanding of what
had really occurred on that day of
her deliverance, would indicate
that the vision was an unfolding
and charging one. The early
rose-tints in the east foreteil the
coming dawn and always precede
the glory of the MONDAY sun. All
Bible evidence points to the con-
clusion that Jesus understanding
of God as infinite Spirit grew nat
urally and normally in this way.
Every recorded act of the Master,
beginning with the proof of his
divine authority as expressed at
Cana of Galilee until the resurrec-
ton morn. supports this deduction.
Christian Science insists. as we
have already seen, upon Jesus
spiritual origin and understand
ing" and 1.-The history of Jesus,
il points out, show him to have
been more spiritual than all other
earthly personalities" (Science and
Health, p. s15). Yet from Cana to
Calvary more than one step was
required.
Does not the growth in under
standing of the Christ. Truth. in
human consciousness confirm the
normality of this unfolding and en-
larging process To one bright
CLEAN may appear instantane-
ously: to another. it may seem like
very tiny CLINT indeed. coming
grudgingly through some narrow
chink. but in every instance 1t en-
iarges as consciousness becomes
more accustomed to the light and
more inclined to welcome its fuller
appearing. The glad experience
of her own healing, perhaps, quite
filled Mrs Eddy's consciousness at
first. But this was not for long.
AS the true meaning Of the light
became clearer 10 her. an under
standing of what had actually
taken place in her human life be-
gan to unfold. Then she realized
its import to Others. To pass on
+ this light. this revealing Truth
which had come TO her so naturally
and vet in such an amazing way,
now became her all-absorbing life
work. Like Paul. her first step
Was TO retire into comparative Sc