Article June 3, 1933 Issue

"God anoints and appoints"

MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL

In the Psalms we read, "He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me." And our Leader says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 130), "The meek and loving, God anoints and appoints to lead the line of mankind's triumphal march out of the wilderness, out of darkness into light."

When this perfect way opens before the sick-bound or sin-enslaved, the rich or the poor, the unhappy or the lonely, it leads them through the darkest night of human sorrow to the day of harmony. "The 'secret place,' whereof David sang," Mrs. Eddy says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 244), "is unquestionably man's spiritual state in God's own image and likeness, even the inner sanctuary of divine Science, in which mortals do not enter without a struggle or sharp experience, and in which they put off the human for the divine."

The student of Christian Science who desires above all else to abide in this "secret place" of Love strives resolutely to devote all his thought and energies to putting off "the human for the divine." In proportion to the faithfulness of this endeavor he learns that his real place of God's appointing is not within the power of any person or influence to give. Dwelling in this "secret place," consciousness abides "under the shadow of the Almighty," where selfless love and selfless thinking are continually expressed.

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