Article August 7, 1920 Issue

"Be still"

KATE I. MACLAREN

AT the present time, when this material world seems so full of trouble and unrest, it is good to remember the words of the "sweet psalmist of Israel," "Be still, and know that I am God." When we begin really to "be still" and consider all that this means, the thought is stupendous. "Canst thou by searching find out God?" How can we know the All? How can a mortal understand the infinite?

In speaking of God, Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275), "No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows."

In order to know God, we must turn away from mortal, material concepts and human beliefs. Material knowledge is not wisdom. We read in the book of Ecclesiastes of "a poor wise man" who "by his wisdom delivered the city," when it was besieged by a materially powerful enemy. This wisdom was not the "wisdom of this world," nor was it culled from learned books or gained from professors. This wisdom was the wisdom spoken of by the wise king as being "more precious than rubies," and "more to be desired than gold." It was understanding,—that understanding which recognizes God, good, as the only power and protector of man.

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