Article August 20, 1979 Issue

Your love is always needed

EVA ANNELIESE SEIDENZAHL

It was the middle of the night. In an upstairs apartment a woman was screaming, and a child was crying desperately. With all my conviction I was declaring to myself the omnipresence of the Christ, the expression of God.

Christian Science teaches the eternal harmony of God's creation, of the only creation there is. This harmony is a spiritual fact, proved in human experience when the picture of blundering, suffering mortals is rejected and spiritual man is recognized as the man God created—the only man existing. Individual man is the individual idea of divine Mind and subject only to God's law of unchanging perfection. Mrs. Eddy writes, "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history."^{ Science and Health, pp. 470-471;}

Suddenly I sat up straight. Previously, when similar disturbances had reached me, I had tried to help through prayer. But now I realized that I had, in effect, been praying for the child— and in a subtle way against his mother.

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