Article June 25, 1966 Issue

No Need to Feel Low

MARGARET MARY ST. JOHN MULLANY

A student of Christian Science returned home after a long and arduous day at her office. As she sank wearily into a comfortable chair and leaned back, she said aloud: "Oh dear! I feel so low!" She was dwelling upon several attempts made during the day to placate irritated individuals who appeared to have no regard for her situation and were expressing self-will and bad temper.

Suddenly the thought came to her: "As a student of Christian Science, you know that only the reverse of evil is true. So what you have to do to find the truth is to reverse all these discordant appearances." She picked up her copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and a Concordance to this work. "The opposite of 'low' is 'high,'" she thought. She began to look up references to the words "high" and "height." As she did so, the following verses from the Bible came to her thought: "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power: not one faileth.... They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." ^{ Isa. 40:26,31;}

In Science and Health she found this beautiful passage: "The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough!" ^{ Science and Health, p. 520;} In pondering these words, the student caught a breathtaking glimpse of the vastness, power, and unchangeableness of infinite Love, which includes strength and tenderness, power and activity, yet which has the quality of stillness too, a quality ever present and ever pouring forth an abundance of good.