Article April 9, 1955 Issue

JOYOUS EXPECTANCY

MERRILL G. SCHIVELEY

The Bible, that precious book which has come down through the years as a guide and inspiration for all mankind, admonishes us to look to God with joyous expectancy for the attainment of good, and good alone, in all our human experiences.

When Christ Jesus came to the place where his friend Lazarus had been buried, it was with assurance and joyous expectancy born of his intimate knowledge of the Father's goodness that he lifted up his eyes and said (John 11:41), "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me," and commanded, "Lazarus, come forth." No doubt there, no uncertainty, but the confident expectancy that the operation of God's law would be made manifest at that very moment and in that very place. "And he that was dead came forth." This demonstration for his friend was preparatory to the great problem soon to confront him on the cross and in the tomb, and which he solved so gloriously.

One of the most gratifying experiences of those connected with Christian Science Camp Welfare Activities during World War II was the steadfast expectancy of good entertained by numerous young service men and women reared in Christian Science. They expected that the truth they had been taught in their homes and in Christian Science Sunday Schools would meet their every need in their conversion from civilians to military man and women. They accepted the truth of the statement made by Mary Baker Eddy in the first sentence of the Preface to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings."

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