Article September 13, 1930 Issue

"If the Lord be God, follow him"

G. HELEN WILKINSON

HOW appealingly straight is the prophet Elijah's heart-searching cry to the people, "If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him"! And we read that "the people answered him not a word."

Is not the crux of all our work just as that very point—that moment of silence? Are we going to waver and let a doubting thought creep in? Or are we at the moment of temptation really desirous of serving God, good, in thought, word, and deed, and thus turning away from Baal, error, the false god that tempts us to follow him into the dismal toils of sin, sickness, and discord? Or are we, too, silent as were the people so long ago, halting and waiting for a proof of God's power before we can believe that "the Lord, he is the God"? Yes, sometimes we do wait perplexedly as bit by bit we let go of the old concepts of material sense. But how gladly we grasp the real and true, the harmony that is really ours; for have not we vainly tried many phases of mortal mind's idiosyncracies to heal our feverish fears, sickness, and sin?

How important it is, then, to place our thoughts on the right side and in order, even as the prophet placed the wood in order on the altar! Then comes the sacrifice. And how many material concepts must be given up before we have sacrificed all for God, good; before we have attained to a saner, richer sense of existence and have lessened somewhat the world-wide belief in the power of evil! We must learn to prove that the omnipotence of God is within our reach, that sickness is no part of the child of God, and that sorrow-stricken thoughts and sin must be cast out before we can manifest "the beauty of holiness." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 43), "The divine must overcome the human at every point." Every earnest student of Christian Science desires to manifest more of the divine power to heal, and so prove to-day to those in the wilderness of materiality the marvels of the Christ-healing, that they, too, may stand in awe and wonder declaring, as of old, that "the Lord, he is the God."

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