ON a winter day after a severe freeze, the writer viewed from her office window the breaking up of the masses of ice in a nearby river and watched the ice floes as they floated down the stream. This scene seemed to her to symbolize the churning turmoil occasioned by the breaking up of fixed mortal beliefs, freezing fears, stubborn opinions, and the tyrannical institutions of the carnal mind, the antichrist, so evident throughout the world today.
After following this trend of thought for a while, still watching the upheaval in the river, the writer asked herself: "What has caused this great frozen mass to break up? Is it not the warmth and benign influence of the sun?" Then, as was her wont, she turned to the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, to read our Leader's metaphysical interpretation of "sun" (p. 595),"The symbol of Soul governing man,—of Truth, Life, and Love."
When one stops to think that, materially speaking, the sun bathes all in light, embraces all in its warmth, blesses and maintains so-called human life, we see how necessary it is for us to grasp the spiritual significance of sun as "the symbol of Soul ... of Truth, Life, and Love," as the benign influence of an infinite, all-pervading power, everywhere present.
