Article August 13, 1921 Issue

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HELEN ANDREWS NIXON

IN the lives of Christian Scientists all over the world there is a great wealth of spiritual treasure laid up, which should be earning interest through the medium of our valuable periodicals. As this is done, those who write and those who read become joint partakers of these fruits of scientific thinking and living, and the pæan of praise to God begun in the hearts of the writers swells to a chorus in the hearts of the readers, and joyous tones reverberate from one uplifted, grateful student to another, thus fulfilling divine Love's law of blessedness in giving.

The writer well remembers a winter's evening, not many years ago, when, after a good full day's work alone, there was a strong desire for the companionship of others. After contemplating this desire for a while, she took up a new number of The Christian Science Journal and read it from cover to cover. The number was a strong one, maintaining its pure and helpful spirit throughout. Following this reading came the quiet, sweet realization that the evening had indeed been spent in the choice society of good men and women. There had been nothing to mar, nothing to detract. The reader had been granted intimate converse with the very best, the very essence in the lives of those who had written for her and for others.

In the writing and the reading the false mask of personality had been essentially dropped, and heart spoke genuinely to heart, with no need of an interpreter, for the language was one, the language of common longing and aspiration and of common joy in the truth of Christian Science made practical. The unity of desire, purpose, and true fellowship disclosed by the testified to the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Christian Scientists well recognize that to prevent the accomplishment of such good, the false claim of evil would, in belief, put up all sorts of subtle arguments to hinder the altogether natural and spontaneous written expression of Christian Scientists. We should all be alert to detect and silence the suggestions and prove that what we want to do we can do.

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