THROUGH the conscientious and consecrated study of the teachings of Christian Science, that wonderful revelation which has come to the world through Mrs. Eddy, a deep moral and religious change takes place in human consciousness, an unparalleled Christianly ethical uplift, for consciousness is led out of the bondage of material thinking upward into the liberty of life in Spirit. The God sense which is more or less dormant in human thought, that is, the sense of a constant, conscious unity with the Supreme Being, indissolubly connected with the unshaken conviction that God, good, is all powerful and that evil is impotent,—this God sense is gradually being resuscitated on our march through the fields of divine Science, being delivered from its seeming subjection; in a word, men are being "saved." Spiritual illumination is being experienced. Discerning our spiritual estate, we become conscious with deepfelt joy that we are the "children of light," which sublime and glorious title was, given by our Saviour and the apostles to those sons of men who with earnest determination turn forever from the material sense of life and become conscious of the true Life.
On his way from a belief in materiality to spiritual life, the student of Christian Science becomes daily more aware that the gulf which separates him from the "children of this world," to which he himself formerly belonged, is growing wider. His interest in them and in their ways and doings wanes as he recognizes their thinking to be without a basic Principle. On the other hand, he feels that he is united with them by human ties, which become firmer and stronger as selfishness by which he was governed heretofore is constantly yielding to love for his neighbor. He realizes the deep import of Jesus' command: "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and he experiences a sense of charity and sympathy for his fellow-beings who are yet wandering and whom he would lead out of darkness, that they, like himself, may become the "children of light."
In the Old as well as in the New Testament we find that the word "light" occurs very frequently. With the creation of light begins the creation of the world, and we are told that the creator divided the light which He called day from the darkness which was called night. The psalmist sings about God being clothed in light. "His brightness was in the light, he had rays of light coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power," exclaims Habakkuk (Luther's Bible). Yet more wonderful are the statements found in the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah, which might be called the song of light.
