Article April 12, 1913 Issue

ABIDING

ROBERT L. SAWYER.

Jesus said, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Students of Christian Science were given a splendid example of this selfless abiding in the life and labor of their Leader; and something of all this was passing through the writer's mind, one summer morning, when, standing near the beach out on Cape Cod, he watched sun and cloud in a seeming struggle for supremacy. Every time the sun came out clear and bright a peculiar sound as of breaking twigs would start, only to cease when the cloud again cast its shadow. Following the direction from which the sound came, there was disclosed a little Scotch broom bush, loaded with seed pods, and on watching closely while the warm sunshine bestowed its best gift, one of the pods was seen suddenly to snap apart, casting the seed in all directions.

The lesson was plain, "If ye abide in me," ye shall abide in quietness and assurance. The little bush did its work naturally, impelled by the silent energies of that light which so fittingly symbolized the source of all being. So shall we, abiding in the light of Mind, in whom "we live, and move, and have our being," bring forth fruits of achievement, "like a tree planted by the rivers of water." How clearly Mrs. Eddy brings out this great fact when she says (Science and Health, p. 249), "Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor material power as able to destroy. Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine 'powers that be.' Such is the true Science of being."

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