Article December 18, 1902 Issue

A Praise Note

R. N.

ENTERING my garden in the early morning, I was greeted by the song of a robin redbreast. The melody was so sweet that I stood and listened. Then there came from another part of the garden a similar song, and the two birds trilled luscious notes without a sign of discord or inharmony, melody answering melody in real joyousness. So pure and clear and delightful were these notes, forming a perfect antiphon of praise for the bounty everywhere manifested, that I was instinctively led to meditate on the lesson that these songsters were teaching.

Shall not the life and work and testimony of every Christian Scientist be pure and clear and joyful? "The corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity" (Science and Health, p. 241), and if we are earnestly desiring to reflect divine Love we shall seek to purify ourselves even as Christ (Truth) is pure, and cultivate that clear spiritual vision that will enable us to see only Good. Too often is that vision blurred by impure thought, and then error assumes such formidable dimensions that we are in danger of being discouraged in our demonstration of Truth. But the pure in heart—in thought, in word, in deed—"shall see God" and rejoice in the spiritual blessings that come from victories over mortal enemies that at one time appeared to be absolutely unassailable.

It is our privilege, too, seeing that we are growing in the understanding of Truth, to let our words be definite, clear, emphatic,—without doubt or fear. There should be no tremulous notes in our utterances. We are ambassadors for Truth, and as such every word we speak should be based on the solid foundation of Divine Science. And so, also, as we remember that we have been, and are now being, brought out of great tribulation, should we not live in the spirit of praise? "The joy of the Lord is your strength." No people on earth should be more joyous than Christian Scientists, for they can rejoice that "Mind constantly feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought, and destroying the errors of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb" (Science and Health, p. 248).

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