Article March 12, 1955 Issue

BLESSINGS FOLLOWING THE FIRST AWAKENING

The Earl of Airlie

Just as individuals love to think and dwell upon the happy days of their childhood, so many of us who have for some time been treading the path from sense to Soul like to dwell again on our original awakenings to the truth which guides, heals, and saves.

Maybe a few of us have first seen the light and heard the voice of Truth in some desert place. Perhaps these came as a direct answer from God to an appeal when we were in dire need and when all around seemed dark and hopeless. This appeal may have taken the form of a complete turning to God and a casting upon His shoulders, in an agony of human helplessness, of the problem confronting us.

The answer comes to such calls, as it always will, just as was promised by God in the words of Isaiah (65:24), "It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." The answer becomes the first step along the path which leads to a deeper understanding of God. It reveals how God, divine Principle, works. It shows how the saving Christ comes and operates in human affairs, as in Jesus' time. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 25), "The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus." Again, in the Preface she says (p vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings."

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