THE writer of Hebrews propounded a tremendous truth when he wrote: "For the word of God is quick, and powerful,... and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do;" while Paul declares, "All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." These are startling statements to the mortal who would hide from the light of Truth and would cherish a little longer his beliefs in materiality with all its ignorance and deception.
Material sense is always vaunting itself as impenetrable and impregnable. Hiding as it does in its own darkness, it even calls that darkness light, and so apparently succeeds in at least temporarily blinding its victims to the falsity of its manifold claims of good and evil in matter. Its day, however, is indeed short; for the light of Truth has arisen to human consciousness through the revelation of Christian Science, and is bringing out from under cover all supposititious claims of a mind and an existence outside of God, that they may be banished forever.
Christian Science very speedily shows the earnest, honest student that he can never get rid of evil until he recognizes evil as evil. He sees that so long as he believes evil to be good, he will go on deceived by it, and will reap the unhappy fruits which result from entertaining such false notions. He therefore thanks God that "all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do." He is most grateful that he has been given that light of Truth wherewith he may discern all "the thoughts and intents of the heart," and thus be enabled to divide between the false and the true, overcoming the former with the latter. In consequence, he starts out on his pilgrimage from sense to Soul with many a shout of thanksgiving that all evil is to be uncovered to him, and that he is to prove it unreal.
