Article July 6, 1907 Issue

"LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED"

ALBERT E. MILLER

We can never truthfully complain that God has deserted us or that He is separated from us. The fact that we are alive—that one is able to say, "I am conscious, I am alive"—is an admission that consciousness is, and therefore God is, for God is Life. With this as our starting-point, we begin to reason out man's relationship to this infinite Mind, of which he is the expression. The voice of Christ comes down to us through the ages, saying constantly, "Let not your heart be troubled." It may be that we are so engrossed with the material aspect of things that we are unable to hear this voice, but it is always there and always uttering this same loving admonition.

A sense of contentment, of gratitude for the blessings which we already have, is a good thing to build or enlarge upon. A little child recently said, "I must learn to be content with the good things I have, or I may lose them instead of getting more and better things." This was said after visiting a home where every need and comfort was supplied, where everything was beautiful and harmonious. These things did not arouse a feeling of envy or covetousness with this child, but on the contrary made her very glad, for she said, "These folks must have always been very content with the things they had so as to get such nice things; and I must be content so as to get nice things." There was a world of wisdom and philosophy in this child's remark, and we know that this thought as it unfolds must of necessity bring to her all that is good. Let us dwell upon this idea more and more each day; lose sight as far as possible of immediate wants and needs, and still the tempest within by this simple means—by reflecting upon the amplitude of divine Love. The trials of to-day will sink into insignificance as we look out upon the horizon of God's loving promise to His children: "Lo, I am with you alway." This is the way to gain the true sense of substance, compared with which matter is but a mere shadow.

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