Article July 30, 1927 Issue

Calmness

ADA MC CONNELL

It is related in the nineteenth chapter of I Kings that Elijah was commanded by the Lord to go forth upon the mountain, and that there he beheld the material sense of things expressed in wind, earthquake, and fire. And the record clearly states that the Lord was not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire.

This experience of Elijah is valuable to the student of Christian Science as he deals with the problems that confront him each day. The testimony of the material senses seems very real to him at times, and mortal mind often appears to make considerable disturbance in the effort to be something. It clothes itself in various arguments, some attractive and alluring; and it even attempts to assume the appearance of the truth. Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has said in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 454), "That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power, is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is the great truth which strips all disguise from error." It is through steadfast realization of the power and presence of infinite Mind, of the allness of God, divine Love, and through the calmness of such exalted thought that the illusions of material sense, with their attendant boastfulness and pomp, disappear into nothingness. One of the greatest joys of God's presence is found in His bestowal of quiet and peace.

A student of Christian Science was once employed in a large office, where part of the work to be performed was that of telephone conversations, which involved accuracy of statement. Upon a particular occasion the noise from without made the performance of the duty seemingly impossible. The student found himself fairly shouting into the telephone, trying in that way to overcome the obstacle, but with no result. It occurred to him that he was following a hopeless method, and thereupon these words of Whittier came to his thought:

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