Article July 3, 1954 Issue

UNIVERSALITY OF TRUTH

MABEL REED HYZER

An unusual and inspiring scene is described in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The first verse tells us it was the day of Pentecost, which was a joyful day, sacred to the Jews—celebrating the fruits of the harvest—as their harvest home. The disciples, so the account reads, "were all with one accord in one place." They were of one Mind in one place on a holy day.

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." When presently they began to speak in other languages than those they knew and commonly spoke, languages which they had not been taught in schools, it was a matter of wonder to those about and soon attracted large numbers of people. The truth of Mary Baker Eddy's words in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 128), "A knowledge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man," was demonstrated by the disciples on that day.

At that time Jerusalem, the city of this event, was the gathering place of the Jews. Men of many nations dwelt there, while others came to attend the feasts. So it happened that in the multitude present on that occasion as many as seventeen nations were represented, and their astonishment must have been great at hearing their own languages spoken by these Galileans.

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