A PARTY making a journey by motor bus traveled all one foggy night through the mountains of one of the eastern states of America, the highway winding around very steep grades, with heavy timber on either side of the road. The fog was so dense that the lights of the car seemed to shine against a gray wall. But so sure was the driver of his ability to cross the mountain pass on a dark, foggy night that his confidence was shared by his passengers. At every curve and at very frequent intervals the horn was sounded in friendly warning to other travelers along the way. When the summit of the range was reached, a stop was made so that the passengers might view the scenery in the bright starlight. They had climbed above the fog, and from that elevated position they could look down on the clouds far below. The air was clear; the stars were bright; the vision far-reaching. Soon the journey was resumed, the descent began, and again fog enveloped the car; but to several passengers who were students of Christian Science the experience taught a lesson so helpful that the journey was much enjoyed.
When in our everyday affairs thought becomes engrossed with the illusion of material things to the exclusion of the realities of Spirit, are we not seemingly in a mental fog? Do we not at times find our vision so obscured that we can see neither ahead nor in any other direction? Our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in her textbook, ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 299), "Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial peaks."
If we climb high enough, we shall rise above the material mist or fog. So, if we look above and away from matter, we can always find God, infinite Mind. One thing absolutely necessary for progress is spiritual vision. We are told in Proverbs, "Where there is no vision, the people perish;" and, conversely, we may say that where there is clear spiritual vision there is immortality.
