Article February 27, 1960 Issue

GIVING THE RIGHT ANSWER

PAULINE B. RADER

In the second chapter of Habakkuk we read (verse 1), "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." Towers in Bible times were erected for refuge and defense and often stood beside the city gates, at the corners of the walls, and at intervals along them. From the vantage point of these towers, one could see what was necessary to be done.

We may assume that the prophet was using a familiar symbol to bring out to his hearers that in order to gain the spiritual height at which one may hear God's message, one has to elevate his thinking. The climax of God's message to Habakkuk was this (verse 20): "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him."

Christian Science accepts what the Bible makes clear, namely that we are all in reality the sons of God. And what is God likely to say to His son? Would it not be what He said to Christ Jesus on the occasion of his baptism (Matt. 3:17), "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased"? God does not reprove His own likeness, but the false concepts which mortals have of themselves bring the reproof of Truth.

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