Article August 27, 1979 Issue

You are invited...

LEON ALBO WOODS

Yes, you are invited to a place of completeness. Of total peace, security, joy, all that's good. In fact, this place is so wonderfully complete and whole that one can describe it as holy. Also as a refuge or, more aptly, a sanctuary.

This invitation is not a recent one but is as ancient as "the Ancient of days." Dan. 7:9; God's all-embracing love has been pronounced by many of the great Bible characters, as well as by numerous others, and the call of the Christ, the true idea of God, extends to all mankind, an unrestricted invitation to accept its benefits.

"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations," Isa. 45:20; Isaiah represents God as saying. And the Psalmist describes the sacredness and safety of the place to which we are invited: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Ps. 91:1; In 1898 Mrs. Eddy explained this verse from Psalms to her last class: "The 'secret place,' whereof David sang, is unquestionably man's spiritual state in God's own image and likeness, even the inner sanctuary of divine Science, in which mortals do not enter without a struggle or sharp experience, and in which they put off the human for the divine." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 244;

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