Article March 11, 1905 Issue

Completeness

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

The Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, is certainly answering the prayers of this age, and teaching hungry hearts what they have all their lives longed to know about God. The illumination which this book has thrown upon the Bible for me, is like that of a great spiritual searchlight, revealing the priceless truths contained therein and bringing them out one by one in their practical value, thus meeting every human need in sickness and in health. Especially comforting and helpful to me has been the revelation in Science and Health of God as both Father and Mother of all; an idea which is all-inclusive and all-satisfying, and which therefore expresses completeness.

Only those who have been motherless from early childhood can know the weary heartaches and empty longings for some one to whom I could turn when in trouble or pain, which I experienced before I began the study of Science and Health. With this new thought of God came a peace and sense of security which no words can express. It filled all the empty places with divine Love, and gave me a new apprehension of the overshadowing power of God. Did this new and broader vision make any the less precious the truth that God is our heavenly Father also? No; on the contrary, it increased my reverence and adoration for the Father of whom Jesus taught.

It is something after this manner that my need was met by Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, as given on page 16 of Science and Health. When trials arise and courage is needed, or when in need of wisdom, strength, and ability to withstand evil, disease, discouragement, etc.,—when in need of the masculine qualities, so to speak,—then it is that with infinite confidence and trust I can turn to our heavenly Father, whose fulness is reflected in His child,—His image. Fear flees; weakness, doubt, and distrust of one's ability to fulfil all righteousness vanishes before an earnest contemplation of the fatherhood of God, and therefore of the true nature and infinite resources of His child. Thus one's strength becomes as "the strength of ten."

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