THE confused and the unintelligible have no interest for logical thought. Sanity demands of statements a distinguishable order, relation, end, and purpose, an exhibition of the "eternal fitness of things;" and this demand is made not only of immediate expressions of thought, but of history, of nature, of faith, of conduct; in a word, of life.
The inability of men to understand most things, the seeming tangle and confusion of the so-called forces and facts with which they have to do, has awakened a call for guidance and illumination that may be heard in all human history, past and present, and it is because Christian Science is answering this call, and bringing a rest and peace which were unknown before, that it is accounted as "above price" by an unnumbered host today. The revelation of Truth became the interpreter of Mrs. Eddy's own life and wide-range experience, it set in order the deepest feelings and convictions of her own heart, and it was because of this that she could speak so affirmatively and so assuringly to others in her writings. In Science and Health (p. 114) she says : "Christian Science . . . lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and body. It shows the scientific relation of man to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought."
The significance of this interpretation of experience, within and without, to human advance, is apprehended in some degree when we realize that the domain of Truth, the sum total of reality, has never been increased., Progress has simply marked and measured mankind's perception of Truth. Things have been seen, and therefore, as we say, "revealed." The prophet, ofttimes a poet, has been simply a foreseer, who was so daring as to utter his voice though men cared not a whit to hear, yea, though they were ready to crucify him for presuming to speak. The revelator and discoverer has always been the interpreter of Life to life. He has laid hold upon fundamental truths and shown them to men. Thus in the phenomenal world Newton discovered the key to a whole universe of facts. The incident of the falling apple was trifling, and yet through this little opening he saw the stupendous, all-governing fact that bodies attract each other directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance, and this so-called law of gravity has been of incalculable significance to human investigation and progress. It solved unnumbered hitherto insoluble problems, and interpreted a vast range of human experience which apart from this key would have remained as great a riddle as was the movement of the planets prior to the time of Copernicus.
