Article July 22, 1939 Issue

"Lift up your heads"

JOSEPHINE F. HOWARD

What an encouraging and loving admonition is found in the Master's words, "Lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh"! What tender understanding it betokens, what compassion to all who are struggling with a false sense of discord, of loneliness, doubt, and self-pity, for it shows the way out of the tangled web of wrong thinking. Whatever our environment, whatever the discordant circumstances, wherever we find ourselves, right there in the midst of the difficult conditions we are to obey the injunction, "Lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

By lifting up our thought to God, good, looking not upon the seeming discord as real, but turning from it to the truth that man is always in the presence of God, expressing the joy and confidence which are our spiritual heritage, we shall find the glory of God filling our consciousness to the exclusion of those thoughts which would separate us from the harmony that is ours by right of man's sonship with God.

It is always a change of thought which must first take place, for in Christian Science we learn that discordant conditions are the outcome of wrong thinking. In the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the way has been pointed out, and the method we must use clearly set forth. She writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 123), "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas."

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