The account in Genesis of how God created man and the universe in six days, and rested the seventh day, is familiar to many; and while the story of Adam and Eve has been to many people merely part of a mental pattern woven together in childhood, with other allegorical threads, perhaps the ordinary workaday folks have, in general, left their problems to be thrashed out by the theologians. They accept the narrative as, in any case, providing them with a satisfactory reason for a Sunday rest, every seventh day of the week!
This being so, it is evident that this mental attitude, or rather the passivity of thought of so many people towards the stupendous problem of creation, is scarcely a promising preparation to the understanding of what Mrs. Eddy means when she writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 519), "Nothing can be novel to eternal Mind, the author of all things, who from all eternity knoweth His own ideas," and further says (p. 520): "Unfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space."
Here is a form of expression which cannot be conveniently classified as ancient fable or archaic fairy tale. Here is an atmosphere of thought which at once wipes out all the familiar landmarks of material sense,— time, space, and sentiment. Probably no one to-day understands all that Mrs. Eddy wrote in her scientific exegesis of the first book in the Bible; but glowing spiritual vision and spiritual understanding will lead mankind to apprehend more and more the truth expressed there,—the scientific truth of existence, which the world most sorely needs; for the human cry goes up constantly. How can we attain; how can we rise to see the glory of God's creation? The answer is delayed, because men appear to be so closely enwrapped in the mist of this mortal seeming that, although the lines,
