Article January 4, 1941 Issue

"Calm coherence"

EMMA EASTON NEWMAN

WHEN Christ Jesus administered a stern rebuke to the moneychangers in the temple, he did not dissociate his thought from spiritual calm. When he and his disciples, in the boat on the Sea of Galilee, were overtaken by a sudden squall, he remained undisturbed. It is recorded that he rebuked the winds and the sea, "and there was a great calm."

The fact that great calm was consistently exemplified in the Master's character enabled him to apply his understanding instantly in these incidents. The latter scene is vividly pictured: "There arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves." The ship was a little fishing boat; the sea was an inland lake; but the sense of danger was the same as that in any seemingly beleagured situation.

In a communion address in 1899 (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 127), Mary Baker Eddy said: "Happy are the people whose God is All-in-all, who ask only to be judged according to their works, who live to love. We thank the Giver of all good for the marvellous speed of the chariot-wheels of Truth and for the steadfast, calm coherence in the ranks of Christian Science." Is there not today the same "steadfast, calm coherence" in the ranks of Christian Scientists throughout the world who are lifting protective and sustaining prayers to God for a world seemingly "covered with the waves"? Each one should reflect the Christlike quality of calmness; he should arise spiritually and rebuke tempestuous conditions in his own thinking and experience, whether these seem to be disease, grief, financial or domestic disturbances.

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