Mrs. Eddy writes on page 117 of Science and Health, "God's essential language is spoken of in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel as the new tongue, the spiritual meaning of which is attained through 'signs following.'" Many students of Christian Science have heard this tongue and can abundantly testify to the "signs following" in the healing of sickness and sin, both in themselves and in others.

However, until humanity has been sufficiently prepared to comprehend in its completeness the language of Spirit, thought must usually take form in words, and we use them in expressing kindness and love to one another. The mode of expression, however, is indeed of small account compared with the spiritual import, which should be fraught with divine power and love.

Does not this explain the means by which they that mourn are comforted, although few words may have been spoken? For "out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise," said Christ Jesus (Matt. 21:16).

No message can be devoid of appeal when the motive has been one of unselfed love, since such love reflects divine Love. For this reason its healing mission can never be frustrated. The spiritual import, divinely impelled, goes forth with the radiance of spiritual power and cannot fail to touch and heal the receptive heart. In her book "Miscellaneous Writings," our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says (p. 262), "When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts."

When Love governs, one need never fear to express himself in public, to speak at a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist, or to address a stranger. If the heart has prompted one to speak, if the motive is to glorify God, it is certain that his meaning will be understood and that enlightenment and healing will result. The Father will speak and work through him as He worked through Jesus, who took no credit to himself but said, "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 14:10).

That spiritual sense is the exclusive prerogative of certain nations, individuals, or age groups is one of the cruel, limiting beliefs of mortal mind. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, speaking of the receptivity of children to the truth, Mrs. Eddy says (p. 6), "A child can measurably understand Christian Science, for, through his simple faith and purity, he takes in its spiritual sense that puzzles the man."

John speaks of "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" (1:9). There can therefore be no age group to which Spirit cannot appeal, no national group which cannot understand its language. The same Principle which spoke through Christ Jesus makes its universal appeal today and is inevitably heard and understood wherever there is a listening car.

An early worker in the Christian Science movement was traveling in a foreign country with two English companions. On one occasion they found themselves in a group of people of whom only two knew anything of the English tongue. The worker, addressing herself to one of these, talked of God as He is revealed in Christian Science. Following the instructions given in the Bible (see Luke 12:11, 12), she took no thought beforehand as to what she should say, trusting in the Holy Ghost to tell her.

Though she spoke in English, several of those present were afterwards eager to let it be known that they had understood what she had said of God. This drew forth from one of her companions the reverent remark, "Every man heard them speak in his own language."

This experience was similar to that related in the second chapter of Acts, from which the above quotation is taken. The words of the apostles, understood by the multitude of different nationalities —each man in his own tongue— showed forth mightily the power of Spirit. The account leaves no doubt but that it was God, Spirit, who spoke through them and whose language reached their hearers in so unmistakable a way.

It was the language of Love which they used, the language spoken before by Jesus and followed by his wondrous healing works. We use this language today when communing with the Father, when reading the Bible with its spiritual interpretation in Science and Health, and in bringing forth its fruits in healing.

Those who in belief are as yet deaf to the things of Spirit may for a time remain untouched by its message, but they too will eventually be awakened to hear the joyful sound, to receive gratefully and abundantly of its healing and instruction. Spiritual sense in mankind will be universally awakened, and all will love, hear, and understand the Father and respond to His loving call. Isaiah prophesied (54:13), "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children."