Article February 17, 1945 Issue

To What Are We Listening?

LINA ROOS SCHRADER

A Little child, in the midst of a group of adults busily engaged in talking above the sound of lively phonographic music, was heard to say, "Let's have a 'listen' piece." He had been taught that silence must always accompany a classical number when played on the phonograph. Thereupon, he named a classical record a "listen" piece.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, provided for mankind a blessed opportunity to hear, in the child's phraseology, a "listen" piece, when she established the weekly Lesson-Sermon. The carefully selected passages from the Bible and the textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, serve to acquaint one better with God and with man. Listening prayerfully, one hears those strains of truth which satisfy and happify his hungry heart. A student regards the study of the Lesson-Sermon as a precious opportunity to be alone with God.

A man who had long been burdened with a perplexing business problem was studying the Lesson-Sermon during the stillness of the night. Suddenly he came to the realization that his own problem was in essence no different from those related in passages he had been reading from the Old Testament. The revelation so astonished him that he found himself saying, "Why, that individual way back there knows more about my problem than I do myself." In that moment an idea came to him which later proved to be the solution to his problem.

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