Article April 26, 1982 Issue

"Songs" of Science

EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT

Music is often considered uplifting. In every service held in a Church of Christ, Scientist, music plays its part.

But Christian Science also refers to music in a figurative way by likening thoughts to notes. The spiritual awakening this Science brings goes beyond temporary relief to permanent revitalization and healing. These are achieved by our turning from a material to a spiritual standpoint. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Music is the rhythm of head and heart. Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine."^{Science and Health, p. 213.}

It is self-evident that harpstrings can do nothing by themselves. They have to be played. And our mental harpstrings, when played only by the human mind, tend to stay tuned to mortal conceptions, limitations, failings, habits, memories, obsessions. These in turn seem to produce tension and frustration. Diversion alone falls short of healing, because it can't establish a more spiritual basis of thought.

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