Article May 4, 1918 Issue

Letting Go

ADA POWERS

Since the beginning of the present world struggle, one Christian Scientist thought she was working to the best of her knowledge for the good of mankind, but one day in May, 1917, while quietly studying the Lesson-Sermon, the telephone rang, and a message came from a dear son who said he was going to report on a certain date at a camp, to be better prepared to serve God and humanity. She knew that this meant an unselfish effort to help unclasp the fetters that seem to be threatening the unfoldment of the Christ-idea in consciousness all over the world, and for a moment she sat reviewing her own past work. It did not take her long to realize that it had not been altogether unselfish, for there was at that moment revealed a latent thought she did not know was there. She had not thought her son would have to go, or would go. Ah, how she was hugging the tatters of personal possession! As soon as this thought was uncovered, the sense of human motherhood, personal possession, selfishness, fear, anxiety, began to be uncovered, and a more spiritual sense was being born. The Master's assurance, "Be not afraid, only believe," coupled with this truth, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," comforted her. Then she realized the truth of our Leader's words in "Christ My Refuge" (Poems, p. 12):—

O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,

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