THE study of the Bible is to a student of Christian Science an unfailing source of inspiration and profit, for he has learned to look beyond the merely literal meaning of the text and to seek the spiritual message that is conveyed throughout the sacred pages. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has drawn attention to the spiritual meaning of the Bible where she has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Science and Health, p.320), "The one important interpretation of Scripture is the spiritual."
An example of the light which Christian Science throws upon the Bible may be found in its illumination of the account of Moses and the burning bush, as given in the third chapter of Exodus.
Moses had fled from Egypt to Midian after killing an Egyptian who was maltreating one of his own, Moses', countrymen, and was tending the flock of his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, in a remote part of the desert. We may be sure that Moses was thinking spiritually at that time; for it is recorded that he "came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb;" and in Scriptural metaphor a mountain is often typical of uplifted spiritual thinking. We read, further, "And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed."
