Article November 29, 1913 Issue

Trust

LYDIA HAMILTON

The outflowing of divine Love is ever the same, whether we are asleep or awake; whether we are sick or well; whether we have abundant wealth or are under the shadow of poverty; whether we are trusting God or forgetting Him. More sure, infinitely more sure than the sun which shines on the evil and on the good, and the rain which falls alike on the just and the unjust, is Love's ceaseless outpouring of good. How grateful we are to Christian Science, which has opened our eyes to see, nay, which has quickened all our mental faculties to grasp in some measure this great truth!

Longfellow has declared that "things are not what they seem," and thinking people everywhere feel that there is much of truth in this statement; but the fulness of its meaning is apprehended only by the Christian Scientist who has found the one universal view-point, the unity of good, from which vantage-ground he can see and declare one power, one presence, one substance, and one law, and standing in the might of this truth, can know that it is infinitely and infinitestimally true among all the seeming things of a seeming power opposed to God. When the clouds of mortal illusion threaten to darken his vision, he can remember Jesus' words, "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." Blessed! Why? Because if in humility and love they hold to their trust, nourish it, cultivate it, contend for it, if need be against the arguments of fear and doubt, they will see. With the understanding of good the Sun of righteousness is sure to break through and dissolve the mist, since its light was there all the time and its eternal splendor is without variableness or "shadow of turning." What a quickening thought it is that we cannot get away from God! On "the wings of the morning," "in the uttermost parts of the sea," in heaven or hell, we can know of a surety that His hand will lead us and His right hand will hold us.

Many are the times that the trustful Christian Scientist can say in the joy of restoration: "Whereas I was blind, now I see." Whereas I was looking to matter for health, holding a belief in both good and evil, I now see health in the unity of man's thought with good. Whereas I was looking to matter for supply, was craving the loaves and fishes of materiality, I now see the boundless wealth of God's spiritual ideas, eternal, indestructible, provided for all His children. Whereas I was looking to human ways and means and persons for happiness, I find my whole joy in loving cbedience to the highest good I know, to Him who only knows how to bestow joy, and as Whittier says,—

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