Article November 12, 1904 Issue

Speaking in Meeting

ELLA S. SARGENT.

Christian Science does not put a premium on "bad grammar" any more than upon "bad spelling;" but it does teach that a false sense of "intellectuality is a snare." It is the fowler's net spread to catch those who might serve the Lord with gladness and come before His presence with thanksgiving and praise. We should remember that what seems "foolishness" to this world, God has taken to confound the "wisdom" of this world!

Of all the glowing testimonies to which I have listened as to the physical, financial, mental, moral, spiritual help brought by the application of Christian Science to "a whole world's woe," the three which stand out clearest in my memory,—white with the high light, the Shekinah, "the visible glory of the divine presence,"—these three were faulty in construction, while one could not even have been written out by the speaker. Ay! but they came from the experience of those who have "lived their way" into the understanding of Immanuel, as "God with us." This understanding is rare, because it comes only through the human heart's consciousness that in the time of trouble, He did "hide me in his pavilion;" that He has, once, hidden me, and that forevermore "in the secret of His tabernacle shall he hide me."

Can all the blended light of the stars, the mellow light of the moon, or even the midday splendor of the sun, pour down upon a sufferer such ineffable peace, or joy, as does divine Love when, trembling on the human lip, softening in the human face, intensifying in the human eye, God is expressed in the smile of human tenderness? Can all the light of the solar universe thrown back from earth and star and moon, return to the parent sun with such divine reflection as shines in the smile which answers to smile? This is the language of heart to heart; "Infinite Love is reflected in love" (Science and Health, p. 17); this is "the light that never was on land or sea." No tortuous windings of human reason, no dainty details of construction, no intellectual intricacies are needed, if

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