Article September 24, 1910 Issue

SINGING PILGRIMS

CARRIE F. LYMAN.

The psalmist says, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage," and in Science and Health we read (p. 254), "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God." The teaching of Christian Science that heaven is a present possibility to all, depending entirely upon the state of one's consciousness, has transformed many sighing and footsore pilgrims into the singing guests of God. No heart animated by a selfless love can long be songless, nor can any one truly keep the divine statutes merely from a sense of obligation or duty. The statutes become songs when obedience springs from love. It is interesting to note that while the word "duty" occurs but nine times in Science and Health, the word "love" and its derivatives take about five columns of the Concordance.

St. John wrote of "the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb," which those who had "gotten the victory over the beast" sang, with "the harps of God." Can we learn "the song of the Lamb," or how to express in our daily lives a singing self-immolation, unless we have first so loved the requirements of the divine law that its statutes are not regarded simply as duties to be performed, but our heartfelt songs as well? In Mrs. Eddy's poem "The Mother's Evening Prayer," which is now included in the new Christian Science Hymnal, occur these words:—

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