Article September 1, 1934 Issue

Consecration

ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN

True consecration is devoting one's self to the service of God. When we start the day with the earnest desire that we may reflect divine Love in all our thinking, we have taken the first step toward true consecration, and toward making the day a profitable and joyous one. And throughout the day we need to listen earnestly, that we may hear and do God's bidding. The desire that our lives may be truly consecrated to God is beautifully expressed in the Psalmist's prayer, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer."

There is a great need for consecration. It is needed in the work of the practitioner, the teacher, the lecturer, the Reader, and in all the activities in the Christian Science movement. It is needed in our contact with the world. Mrs. Eddy writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 110), "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives." Consecration to God on our part will encourage those with whom we come in contact in a business way, and in other ways, to seek for themselves the truths of Christian Science.

The desire to live and speak the truth is helpfully expressed in the lines:

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