Article January 20, 1923 Issue

"Held in Thy law"

GRACE KNOX COOPER

At the close of each day the Christian Science article on the Home Forum page of The Christian Science Monitor comes to me like a sweet benediction. Many times the very title words have brought comfort and healing. One day, there seemed in the experience of the writer to be a problem difficult to solve. All through the hours she had been listening for God's voice; and when, at nightfall, the message of the headline read, "Held in Thy law, I stand," fresh inspiration came to her.

That evening a star shone above the wooded hill; and the words, "Held in Thy law," were better understood. Although the viewpoint seemed to be gained through material vision, yet, as Mrs. Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 87), "I love your promise; and shall know, some time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light, and color, of what I now through you discern dimly." A glimpse of perfect spiritual law, apart from the material sense of law, was realized, wherein was no disturbed harmony, only the rhythm of the spiritual universe, including man "held in Thy law." Then came the sweet assurance that it made no difference what material sense was believing about a discordant mortal, for it did not affect in the very least the spiritual fact of man "held in Thy law." Needless to say, the calm realization of this holy truth freed from the seeming bondage.

Every honest seeker of Truth in Christian Science is endeavoring to "ascend into the hill of the Lord," led by "the guiding star of being," to use Mrs. Eddy's words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. vii), which star is found through the quiet recognition of what the holy fact of being "held in Thy law" really means.

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