Article August 3, 1929 Issue

Solitude

MARIE DODGE

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." This prayer was in the thought of a student of Christian Science as she contemplated the majestic beauty of a mountain range which lay outstretched before her gaze. This prayer of desire was answered by the "still small voice" of Truth, in bringing to her thought the Scriptural words, "Be still, and know that I am God." Through earnest effort to be obedient to this spiritual admonition, the student experienced a wonderful illumination of consciousness.

Basing her thought and meditation upon God, as divine Principle, and upon the eternal fact that spiritual creation is God's reflection, the student turned to Mrs. Eddy's spiritual interpretation of mountains in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 511), where she writes, "Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand for solid and grand ideas." Majesty, greatness, beauty, bounty, and many other qualities were expressed; but the student gained the greatest good from contemplating the spiritual idea of solitude. This quality was evidenced in the pervading stillness, presenting such a contrast to the surging claims of mortal belief which sometimes clamor for admission in the guise of lack, fear, disease, and kindred disturbances, believed necessary to human existence.

We are told in the Gospels that Jesus went up into a mountain to pray. After these experiences, when he had continued all night in prayer to God, he came down again to the workaday world,—the busy market place and the thronging thoroughfare,—and made his mighty demonstrations of the omnipotence of God, Spirit, in overcoming so-called material laws.

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