Article January 22, 1938 Issue

The Power of Expression

CONSTANCE E. HEBER PERCY

When called upon to express what we know, orally or in writing, how many of us are tempted to cry out, as did Moses of old, that we are not eloquent, but are slow of speech and of a slow tongue! If this be the case, we shall do well to consider God's reply to Moses, "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."

The Christian Scientist recognizes this reply as a call to him to acknowledge God as the only Mind, and therefore as the source of all intelligence, perception, and expression, and to recognize that man, as God's image and likeness, is one with and eternally governed by that intelligence. This sense of oneness with and absolute subordination to the divine Mind was measurably recognized, preached, and practiced by the prophets of the Old Testament, and was fully understood and demonstrated by our Master, Christ Jesus. When questioned as to the source and authority of his teachings, Jesus said: "As my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him."

These glorious assurances are for us all to accept and apply in our own daily experiences, for from school days onwards we are continually called upon to put our thoughts into words. This helps us, later on, to share with mankind the wisdom and beauty that is being unfolded to us by divine Mind.

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