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A change of view, yielding our many opinions to the One Changeless and Perfect Idea, must change our thoughts and feelings. The visible world has seemed to be mysteriously linked with man's thought; "The things that are seen are temporal," means that our way of seeing things is temporal.

Emerson says, "The creation is on wheels, always passing into something else, streaming into something higher" --- in other words, the visible seems to ascend with man's ascending thought. To a pure consciousness all is pure, and the change is not in things, but in our thoughts.

Robertson says, "The soul spreads its own hue over everything;" and Victor Hugo declares that --- "Nature is the immense shadow of man." Paul affirms the same truth by saying, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds." Things are all right, just as Love made them. We have seen them wrong.

If we would discover the "new heaven and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," we must remove the shadows of past and present beliefs.

A child was asked, "What makes daylight'?" She replied, "The earth turned toward the sun." "What makes night?" was then asked and she answered, naturally, "The earth turned toward darkness makes night."

Growing in understanding, the same child will see that there is no center of darkness towards which the earth may turn.