Article January 17, 1914 Issue

Acquaintance with God

FLORENCE STRATTON WEAVER

In all our study of Bible history we find that the great insistence throughout the ages has been for men to be acquainted with God, and the promise of all life and blessedness has been named as the reward for so doing. In Deuteronomy an exhortation goes forth for the people to know God, in the words, "that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days." In the book of Job we are counseled: "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee." Christ Jesus declared, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent;" while John said, "We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."

In harmony with this Scripture teaching, Mrs. Eddy gives us a single sentence which shows humanity in this age how to get acquainted with God, namely, "through the transparency of Science" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183). The blessedness of this close acquaintance with God was once brought to the attention of the writer in the case of a young woman whom she knew. This lady had a sense of deafness, together with a consuming fear that she would lose her hearing altogether. She was as one in a prison-house, with the lights all turned out and the doors locked; but when Christian Science was presented to her, she responded to it as the "hart panteth after the water brooks." The truth seemed to fall on her as showers that water a thirsty land, and the budding and blossoming began at once.

About a month afterward, a relative who had left her kinswoman when she was in the awful vortex of fear, returned to the city, and naturally the first question was, "Well, how is your hearing?" Our young woman joyfully replied: "Oh, I never think of it; I am too busy getting acquainted with God. I scarcely lose a moment; it is so wonderful to know God! That is what Christian Science does for one, and I am just about the happiest person in the world!" This young woman is now a Christian Science practitioner in an adjoining city. The writer met her a short time since, and she seemed to have no difficulty at all in hearing.

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