Article July 4, 1931 Issue

"Everything ends in song"

NELLIE B. MACE

Someone has written, "Everything ends in song." This phrase expresses a beautiful forward-looking assurance. But in the many trials encountered in individual experience, it may not always seem easy to see that everything ends in song. Rather is there a tendency to think that all things end in sadness, and that one cannot "sing the Lord's song in a strange land." Nevertheless, after the night and the storm and the defeat of mortal sense, the ultimate song is heard for the simple reason that material concepts, having passed their limits, disappear, while the primal harmony continues without interruption or pause.

Existence, to be immortal, must be harmonious, for discord has within itself the elements of destruction. Harmony alone endures. "Everything ends in song," for nothing is true but harmony, the essence of divine reality—the response of creation to its creator being the joy, the praise, the bliss inherent in real being. The beauty of pure being is demonstrable; and from the human standpoint, the spiritual way must be discerned and put into practice. Indeed, the Science of Christianity points to perfection; it calls for a willingness to strive to overcome all that is unlike God, that is, to attain unto the undimmed consciousness of good. Of this spiritual realization and demonstration Mrs. Eddy says (Retrospection and Introspection, pp. 56, 57), "Divine Science demands mighty wrestlings with mortal beliefs, as we sail into the eternal haven over the unfathomable sea of possibilities."

Many passages in the Scriptures associate song with the human emergence from trouble, with triumph over wrong. Moses and Miriam, after the passage through the Red Sea, sang songs of thanksgiving to God for the great deliverance of their people. The song of Truth was with them both before and during that transit, although they did not hear it distinctly enough to echo it until they were on the far side of the sea. Yet the insistent harmony of being was singing in the courage, in the faith, in the trust, and in the obedience which bore them forward; and when these spiritual qualities had at length triumphed over the sense of enmity and danger, the song became to them vocal, and their recorded rejoicing and praise has since sung itself into the hearts and lives of untold multitudes.

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