Article January 17, 1920 Issue

A Day with the Lord

HARRIET B. ALLEN

IN Scripture we read, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Mrs. Eddy says in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 17), "The Discoverer of this Science could tell you of timidity, of self-distrust, of friendlessness, toil, agonies, and victories under which she needed miraculous vision to sustain her, when taking the first footsteps in this Science."

There seems to be a thought among many that vision must smack of modern spiritualism, and so they turn from it and lose the lesson they could gain. God, divine Love, has a language all His own. shall not His children study to interpret this language and learn what is on every guidepost that points the way which we must take in our journey heavenward? John says, "Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." If something comes to us that we do not understand, it is well to treasure it in our hearts, and at some time its truth, if it contains a truth, will be revealed.

I wish to speak of an experience that came to me some time ago. Peter says, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years." I have had one day with the Lord and I now understand what it signifies. Every day of my mortal existence could be blotted out, but the day of the Lord would remain forever. I felt that I was a child again; all the changes and vicissitudes of my past life were blotted out of my consciousness. I was so free, so happy! I had nothing but a realizing sense of good, and it seemed to me that I had always had it. This came to me on one of our national holidays—Decoration Day. On this day of the Lord, though I was in the world, and with material sense saw the graves, the tears, the flowers, yet I was not of the world. Nothing in the outward world seemed to have changed, but all that really counted seemed to come from within. I was in an atmosphere so kind, so soothing, so gentle, so pure, that Love brooded over all, for all was of divine Love. At first the wonder and beauty of the experience filled me. At length the interpretation came. I began to see that these heaven bestowed spiritual concepts were already mine. Strength and freedom of action; the use of every faculty; peace, joy, health, comeliness, freshness—all were mine. I saw that the all-Father had bestowed these gifts of Love upon His children, and the day of His appearing in their hearts will come when they see as they are seen. Then I saw what a work we had to do to claim these gifts and hold them. I saw that if we did not watch, errors and sins of all kinds would claim to take these treasures from us one by one. Discord and disease, whose name is legion, would beset us on every hand, and as the years go on, the beliefs of mortal sense would declare their evil depicting decrees.

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