"So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him" (Deut. 32:12). To one Christian Scientist facing a crisis involving the lives of others, as well as many far-reaching and radical decisions, these words of Moses' referring to the experiences of Israel and God's faithfulness and love, came with arresting significance. The fidelity, vision, and obedience which characterized the conduct of the great Hebrew leader and lawgiver in overcoming timidity, lack of eloquence, self-will, and other difficulties, and his success in guiding the children of Israel out of bondage, became vividly real and inspiring. The surmounting of obstacles, the bringing of events into line with the divine design of salvation and liberation, were instantly recognized as a model for constructive human action.
Spiritual sense, which alone led Moses out of the idolatry in which he was reared to monotheism, or the pure concept of the one God, illumined the Scientist's thought, lifting the burden of responsibility, silencing fear and human will, and revealing higher ideals. New vistas of spiritual achievement were glimpsed, and the way was pointed out.
Opening "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, she read under the marginal heading "Spiritual guidance" (p. 566), "As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear,—as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy,— so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God." How completely did this remarkable description of the overcoming of all the vicissitudes encountered then cover the details of what confronted this individual now.
