Before coming into Christian Science, I had been a close student of hygienic laws, studying material cause and effect with much zeal and enthusiasm, hoping thus to benefit my own immediate family and friends. These hygienic studies led me to dread passing green slime-covered pools of water which human law invested with poisonous exhalations and miasmatic qualities.
One day I called to see a friend who possessed a very fine microscope, and who was just then examining a small section of the dreaded green scum under the microscope. He invited me to take a look at it. I could scarcely credit what I saw—the most delicate ferns, grasses and mosses in exquisite shades of green, that riveted one's gaze, and made an indelible mental picture of surpassing beauty. Ever after, this picture would appear to me when passing such places, and destroy the dread I formerly felt.
This incident came to me recently when a most disgusting, obnoxious claim of sin was uncovered in a patient. The claim proved to be one of heredity and of such adamantine seeming and proportions as to stagger, for the time, my sense of the Truth of Being, and its power to dissolve every claim in the crucible of Love. In my dilemma, I turned to Science and Health, page 160, line 21. How the clouds of prenatal laws —lust, impurity, dishonesty, melted away, as I gazed through the "microscope of Spirit," which disclosed man as God made him, reflecting the One Mind, which entails the Divine heredity— purity, truth, immortality!
