THERE is a biographical sketch of King Solomon in the third chapter of I Kings which portrays with masterly touches the relationship between Solomon's reign and certain qualities of thought which he expressed.
"And Solomon loved the Lord," the story begins. It is recorded that "in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said. Ask what I shall give thee." Then Solomon, recognizing the inability of corporeal personality to accomplish anything good, prayed humbly: "I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. ... Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad." This desire "pleased the Lord," and his prayer was answered.
In the interpretation of this story, according to the teachings of Christian Science, it becomes plain that the God to whom Solomon prayed was no more personal and no more likely to grant personal requests then than He is now. Solomon's God was the same God that Christ Jesus so fully understood; the same God that the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, revealed in the Science of Christianity as Principle, infinite Mind, Love. The truth which Jesus taught and demonstrated, and which Mrs. Eddy revealed as eternal, demonstrable Science, has "neither beginning of days, nor end of life."
