Article September 14, 1899 Issue

Listening for God's Footsteps

BY HERBERT S. FULLER.

There was a testimony given in one of our Wednesday evening meetings recently, that led me into a train of thought which ended in my having a clearer thought and a kinder one, I hope, relative to those dear ones who have not yet caught a glimpse of Truth, as it is revealed in Christian Science.

It was related that a woman who was a great sufferer from a belief in fear said that she would lie awake night after night in absolute agony, mentally, until she heard on the piazza the step of her husband, whose business kept him away until a late hour. Then she would close her eyes and be in a deep, peaceful sleep before he reached the room. This fear was destroyed by Christian Science.

Listening to this, and realizing how real her agony seemed to her at the time of which she spoke, the thought came to me that her story depicted plainly the condition of all mortals until the effulgence of the great light of Christian Science came across their pathway. Before we heard of Christian Science we were all in mortal terror. We were in a state of great fear. Whether we admitted it then or not, we now know that fear was with us every minute, and even when to sense we were the happiest we were even the most miserable. We were, in fact, waiting to hear God's footsteps at the door of our thought, although we knew it not.

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