Introduction to a
Lecture
MAXIMILIAN R.
KNITEL
Men
and women are like windows, through which spiritual light
may shine and thus be made manifest. Now if these windows
are soiled, darkened with the murk of materiality, they will
transmit but little light. Willingness to start cleansing
the windows, however, is what is required. The plea,
"Cleanse thou me from secret faults," brings an immediate
response. And when the light begins to shine through, it is
so wonderfully illuminating. It is indeed a light to lighten
our darkness. About eight years ago the light of Christian
Science found me with darkened windows. In fact, they were
very dark, so soiled and smudged that it seemed almost
useless to start cleaning them. At that time the healing
message entered my home and rescued a member of my family
from a life of invalidism, and I was led to start cleaning
my windows so that the light of the Christ, Truth, could do
its perfect work. With sure and steady strokes one phase
after another of destructive materiality has been wiped
away, and today I find, through windows that are much
cleaner than they used to be, that the glorious light of
Truth is with me always. Did not our Master say, referring
to the Christ, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world"?
Excerpt from "The
Lectures"
Christian Science Sentinel, November 28,
1925
|