Article August 26, 1944 Issue

"The secret place"

MARJORIE C. SELLERS

In the material world today there is great evidence of destruction, loss, separation, and homelessness. In these times of trouble there must be thousands who turn for comfort to the ninety-first Psalm and seek to find security in "the secret place of the most High" and to abide "under the shadow of the Almighty."

During a recurrence of night raids on London the noise of the great guns and the devastation of fire and bombardment seemed to shriek defiance to the omnipotence of Spirit and the presence of peace. Yet in the midst of this destruction it was possible to experience the security, calmness, and peace which accompany the understanding of God's mighty presence. As always happens at the moment of human need, the services in the Christian Science churches became even more comforting and enlightening than usual. At a Wednesday evening meeting at this time a young man who had fought in the North African campaign testified to his attainment of peace in the midst of fighting and made the profound statement that hostilities did not have to cease in order to experience a sense of peace.

We find peace in "the secret place of the most High." "The secret place" is spiritual reality, in which man is the reflection of God. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, speaks of this in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 244) when she says, "The 'secret place,' whereof David sang, is unquestionably man's spiritual state in God's own image and likeness, even the inner sanctuary of divine Science, in which mortals do not enter without a struggle or sharp experience, and in which they put off the human for the divine." It is in this rejection of the material sense of man and the acknowledgment of spiritual identity that we find security and peace.

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