Article May 6, 1905 Issue

A Message of Love

EFFIE ANDREWS.

IN a year full of blessings, one great gift came to me through our beloved Leader's Dedication Address to the Concord Church, and I should be ungrateful indeed did I not recognize the give with the gift. After reading the address through, I seemed to catch the thought back of the words, and was impelled to commence again, for the throbbing impulse of Love's message brought me also to "the feet of Christ." I read on until I came to that glorious definition of Christian Science which reads thus: "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual and eternal, is to individualize infinite power, — and this is Christian Science." (See Christian Science Journal, August, 1904, p. 258.) I could go no farther, for my human consciousness was filled with the simplicity of the statement and the infinite possibilities for each and every child of God. Christ Jesus stood before my thought, the perfect exemplification of individualized infinite power. His thought, kept in touch with the Father, gave him dominion, enabled him to annul every material law ; even the wind and wave obeyed him; both visible and invisible forces were in subjection to him; and he could say, "All power is given unto me."

It was glorious! I seemed to realize as never before the individual right and necessity of all God's children to advance in line with the definition and rule just quoted (and as taught all through our text-book), until each one can "in spirit and in truth" make the same statement, "All power is given unto me." I was so happy and glad over the love that illumined my thought through the words of that address, that it seemed like a Pentecostal day, and my heart cried out: For the spirit of Truth is come, and is guiding us into all Truth! Love is all-presence and all-power now.

That night I was awakened out of sleep, and sat up. Once I used to be awakened by some sense of pain or trouble, but this was with a thought of the voice that came to little Samuel, and then I remembered the voice of Love that had spoken to me, and I wanted others to be blessed, so I got up at once to realize more of the truth, desiring that my light should be burning, kindled as it had been by our Leader's individualized expression of love for all mankind. When I lay down again, it was with a sense of "On earth peace, good will toward men," that came with a feeling of the nearness of the all-power.

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