Article December 9, 1939 Issue

Learning to Listen

WINIFRED S. ROSS

IN learning to apply the permanent facts of existence as revealed in Christian Science, we find that reliance upon spiritual evidence is necessary, and that the testimony of the material senses is misleading and unsatisfactory.

Even though he may have witnessed healings wrought by this Science, one sometimes hesitates to apply the truth in his daily affairs, and waits for a more convenient time and place. But since time and place are merely relative conditions of thought, he finds his concept of existence gradually changing, and the seeming obstacles in his path disappear as he accustoms himself to listen for God's directing and to look to spiritual facts. Thus he will see that in some measure at least he is learning to rely upon God.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states (p. 308), "The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man." These are stirring words. Do they seem abstract, transcendental? If so, it is because mortal mind listens to thoughts unlike those of God.

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