Article December 26, 1903 Issue

The Call of Duty

M. S. B.

The Bible says, "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion, ... shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion."

In our text-book the same rousing thought is given: "Sleep is darkness; but God's creative mandate was, 'Let there be light.' In sleep, cause and effect are mere illusions. They seem to be, but are not.... Even so goes on the Adam-belief, of which mortal and material life is the dream" (Science and Health, p. 556).

When Christian Science first dawns upon our thought, we are like people awakened from a long sleep. Life suddenly takes on a new phase. We are made aware that the Biblical promises of salvation, healing, and peace are not the voicing of mere emotional ecstasy, but they are an earnest of results which ever attend the discernment of and obedience to, a true conception of God. Great thinkers, from Moses to Paul, realized, in greater and lesser degrees the spiritual law and its practical application to the needs of mortals.

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