Article January 10, 1942 Issue

"The Lion of the tribe of Juda"

DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE

In an inspiring message addressed to First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England, Mary Baker Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 183): "To-day a nation is born. Spiritual apprehension unfolds, transfigures, heals. With you be there no more sea, no ebbing faith, no night." With what spiritual vigor and promise have these words of our Leader's shone out during the difficult and dangerous experiences of these times, and never more than during the great air battles over London itself!

While approaching hours of darkness may bring with them an ever-increasing sense of tension, of possible loss, hardship, dislocation, an intangible feeling of apprehension, in the sense of fear, what a welcome sanctuary is revealed in the realm where thought may seek and find refuge from confusion, turmoil, and conflict— in the universe of divine ideas! In her message already quoted Mrs. Eddy has given us the true meaning of apprehension—the unfolding to thought of the beauties and wonders of God's perfect universe of ideas, wherein is no conflict or danger.

During these weeks, lengthening into months, of intensive night bombardment, all the usual standards of peace, comfort, certainty, and normality were, to human sense, being jeopardized; distress, homelessness, loss, and destruction appeared widespread. Then it was that the ever-availability of the divine universe with its nightless radiance, its undimmed faith, its freedom from tempest-tossed beliefs to which our Leader directs thought, became indeed a precious sanctuary, where faith could be renewed and stability preserved in the certainty of the final triumph of good over evil. Here, though sleep might be unattainable, the consciousness of Truth would give repose; here spiritual apprehension would unfold the indestructibility of divine ideas.

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