WHAT a moment that is when we first catch a glimpse of the all-power and all-presence of God, and remember at the same time that His name as well as His nature is Love! This is a divine revelation which comes to every waiting heart. Unless the Christian Scientist is living in daily communion with God, and has come to understand in a measure what is meant when God is spoken of as divine Principle, the temptation is to think that His presence and His power are intermittent and spasmodic. This is the error of much scholastic theology,—an error from which mankind must some day be completely emancipated.
One can quite understand what a mighty upheaval of erroneous mental concepts would have taken place centuries ago had mankind spiritually interpreted the Bible on those metaphysical lines laid down in Science and Health. Even now a study of some popular commentaries on the Bible conveys to the seeker after truth a quite inadequate and misleading interpretation, and one turns with a sense of relief and spiritual profit to the inspired writings of our loved Leader, which are clothed with spiritual power and with all the illumination of spiritual intelligence. It is thus we begin to learn that every book in the Bible, every chapter, every incident, every record, however small it may seem, of the manifestation of divine justice, righteousness, and love in relation to mankind, is pregnant with instruction and encouragement. The lessons are spiritual, and therefore they must be spiritually discerned; but spiritual sight is a quality of generic man, God's spiritual idea.
Many times the Bible speaks of seeing God; and as we advance in the understanding of the Science of Christianity, we learn that clearness is in the ratio not only of our mental grasp and apprehension of the great fundamental facts of Science, but also of our humility, our fidelity, our obedience, our consecration. There is no moral or spiritual strength apart from the activity of these mental qualities; they are the prerequisites to the realization of the healing and saving power of Truth.
