RUGGED mountains silhouetted in blue against a copper sky held the rapt attention of a mother and her two young sons. A wake of froth and swooping sea gulls followed a white ship out of the bay. It was a scene of beauty in motion—color and design changing frequently in the rays of the setting sun.
The hilarity and physical energy of the two boys having subsided, the mother recognized it as a good time to turn their thought to the contemplation of spiritual facts. Many times this Christian Science family had expressed gratitude for the beauties of nature which surrounded the little home in which they lived. Now this period of quietness provided an opportunity to help the boys gain a more exact understanding of what Christian Science teaches regarding earth's beauties.
After telling them something of what Mary Baker Eddy writes on this subject, the mother explained that earthly beauty typifies holiness, but that it is not spiritual; that God, Spirit, does not make matter, however beautiful; and that things spiritual are not comprehensible to the physical senses. Keeping well within their vocabulary range, their mother also pointed out that notwithstanding the loveliness of trees, flowers, and sunsets this beauty only hints the glorious beauty of spiritual reality.
