Article December 16, 1905 Issue

Wait and Murmur Not

MARY V. LITTLE.

SOME one has said, "The world needs not so much to be taught as to be reminded." There may be other wayfarers in Christian Science who need to be reminded of these words of our Leader, which have given me great strength lately.—"Remember that human pride forfeits spiritual power, and either vacillating good or self-assertive error dies of its own elements. Through patience we must possess the sense of Truth; and Truth is used to waiting" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 268).

If we are consciously working to bring forth the fruits of Spirit in our daily lives, we may be reasonably free from human pride; but many of us feel, when we honestly question our own hearts, that our sense of good is vacillating. There is not always that calm, sure sense of right in our lives that we are taught to manifest. There are moments of strength and clear spiritual vision, but how easily we let discouragement in, as a vague, impalpable mist, some thing that not quite obscures yet dims to our sense the spiritual reality. Positive good does not admit any vaciliation, but holds its representative immovably firm and staunch. In our zeal to make naught of error, we sometimes lose sight of much that our Leader has said of the need for patient unobtrusive work and waiting. There seemed to me a certain quiet humor about that clause, "and Truth is used to waiting," when I first read it. It seemed to say that we need not worry over the fate of Truth. It is nineteen hundred years since Christ Jesus voiced to the world what we are striving now to demonstrate, and the integrity of Truth has not suffered, nor need we fear it will suffer in the days to come.

With the Psalmist, our intense longing for Truth's recognition is daily uttered: "Oh that men would praise the Lord ... for his wonderful works to the children of men!" and yet our work is not merely to sit and listen to the demonstrations of others. Our prayer for the universal realization of the truth will be answered when we scientifically obey the command, "Be still, and know that I am God."

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