Article September 3, 1910 Issue

GRACE

LENA EDWARDS NEELY.

IN Science and Health (p. 4) we read these words: "What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds." For several years I had tried to get an intelligent idea of the real meaning of the word grace. I knew that I needed it, and the first step toward the getting of it was to understand what grace really is.

The answer to my prayer came in an unexpected way. I was helping a young student of Christian Science who was facing a very unpleasant problem. She wished to avoid the experience, as most mortals would certainly have done,—but when she was shown that she must drink "the cup" without a murmur, she yielded up her own will and joyfully took up the cross. Her face became beautiful, and to me it was the face of grace. As this was revealed to me, I thanked God and our dear Leader for the sweet message of Love.

I then saw that grace is the virtue which gives us power to yield up our own will and accept that of the Father. May this sweet visitor come to every one who needs the strength and peace which come when the human yields to the divine.

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