Article November 19, 1949 Issue

SING!

RUTH STELZENMULLER

How the human heart cries out for comfort and guidance when the way seems dark and hopeless! How it struggles to loose itself from anguish and longs for peace and joy! Then is salvation near, if this call of the Psalmist be faithfully heeded: "Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises." In the depths of its despair the suffering heart may see no reason for singing praises to God, yet this is the one thing most needed.

How can we sing when seemingly confronted with nothing but defeat, pain, sorrow, lack? "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 15). This, then, is the answer: We can sing in the faith and understanding that the loveliness, perfection, and boundlessness of the one all-knowing, all-inclusive God are right at hand every instant. God's priceless gifts are free to all who will accept them. Hidden from a world believing in a false, material sense of existence, these spiritual treasures are revealed through the teachings of Christian Science.

From the study of this Science, which is based wholly on the inspired Word of the Bible, we learn that God is good and there is nothing beside Him; that God, Spirit, creates only that which is spiritual, harmonious, and eternal; that God is universal, all-powerful Love, to whom all things are possible. We learn, further, that God, the loving father of all, bestows on His beloved child—man made in His likeness—the glorious heritage of infinite, unchanging good. Is not such a God to be unceasingly praised and adored?

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