Article July 6, 1907 Issue

MEDITATION

JOHN E. FELLERS

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.—Psalms.

Meditation is a quiet and sincere endeavor to apprehend the "mystery of godliness." It is a discipline, a drilling for the march. It is sometimes the Christian's Gethsemane, wherein he prepares to meet his accusers. It is the refiner before his crucible. It is the tree, nestling in the seed; the fruit, hidden in the bloom. It is Bethlehem, contemplating the star. It is progress, measuring the distance up Calvary. It is "silence, healing the blows of sound." It is prayer, winged for its flight to the bosom of God. It is atonement, facing the light. It is the penitent, forgetting the mistakes of the past. It is the teacher, preparing the world's lessons. It is the father, watching for the homecoming prodigal; and the mother, holding to her heart the Saviour of mankind. It is the psalmist, exclaiming, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" the patriarch, inquiring, "If a man die, shall he live again?"

From out the years of meditation, fraught with consecration and toil, come the words of our Leader, "O Christian Scientist, thou of the church of the new-born; awake to a higher and holier love for God and man; put on the whole armor of Truth; rejoice in hope; be patient in tribulation,—that ye may go to the bed of anguish, and look upon this dream of life in matter, girt with a higher sense of omnipotence; and behold once again the power of divine Life and Love to heal and reinstate man in God's own image and likeness, having 'one Lord, one faith, one baptism'" (The People's Idea of God, p. 14).

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