Article September 21, 1907 Issue

REJOICE

ADA J. MILLER.

One morning recently I awoke with a sense of great depression. The thought came to me, "Rejoice—just rejoice," so I let the Bible words of rejoicing fill my consciousness. Holding these passages in thought, I got up and went to an east window. The sun had not yet arisen, but the clouds that dappled the sky almost to the zenith were aglow with color. The scene was the physical symbol of that which Truth had done in my consciousness. The "rejoice" thoughts were rays of light that transformed, lifted the clouds of sense, and as day, "the irradiance of Life" (Science and Health, p. 584), dawned, these earth mists vanished. As I watched the sky, I realized that the sun does its work regardless of clouds; in the same way, Truth heals, regardless of the clouds of mortal sense. Our work is to let our light shine. Light is omnipresent because it is of God. The same thought applies to harmony, strength, wisdom, understanding, love. The same eternal mandate says, Let there be harmony; let there be strength; let there be wisdom; let there be understanding; let there be love. These are omnipresent, because they are of God. And we let these attributes appear by taking antagonistic grounds to their opposites, no matter if material sense affirm the manifestation of opposing conditions. Truth alone is true; and these qualities of Mind are reflected by man because he is the image of God. In denying every manifestation of error and declaring the truth we are doing all, and thus we "stand."

John Wesley's mother once wrote to him when he was in college, "Would you judge of the lawfulness or the unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule: 'Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind, that thing to you is sin.' "

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