"THE Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever" (Ps. 29:10). These words stood out with startling insistence from the page of an open Bible, awakening, challenging, energizing the thought of a student who seemed overcome by the dreary array of difficulties, restrictions, and limitations which confronted those in the European war zone during the winter of 1942. The world outlook was dark, nights were disturbed, many things were in short supply. The demands upon time and thought were very urgent.
The student read the words aloud, and then as if in reply found herself saying, "Yes, and that is exactly where I am going to sit, and I am not going to get wet!" With a newly awakened expectancy and interest she opened the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to seek the spiritual understanding with which she knew the floods must be surmounted. She read the following passages, all occurring on page 505: "Spiritual understanding, by which human conception, material sense, is separated from Truth, is the firmament." "Genesis i. 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." "Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind,— Life, Truth, and Love,—and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science."
Here was the immediate answer. Spiritual understanding alone can separate these conflicting viewpoints, the material sense of things, from the true idea, silencing the former and bringing to light the latter. "The divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe," was therefore within reach of spiritual apprehension. Immediately the burdened and confused sense of having many problems lifted, and the student turned gratefully and unreservedly to the universe of Mind's creating, with a new consciousness of God's presence and power which prophesied victory.
