Uninterrupted Harmony

MARY T. TATUM

Students of Christian Science often find, as they continue in their study and practice of its great truths, that they are becoming more immune to sickness, that they are freer from discord and less susceptible to sin or other erroneous suggestions. If these conditions seem to arise, they are more easily mastered, and disturb less the student's peace of mind. This is the inevitable result of striving to "hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true," as Mrs. Eddy so wisely counsels (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 261); and the more successful one is in keeping thought above material appearances, the more harmonious will be his experience. God's spiritual ideas are constantly with us, for "in him we live, and move, and have our being;" but it is only as we spiritualize our thinking that we discern them.

We cannot benefit from the radio programs arranged for our entertainment unless we tune in properly. Similarly, by thinking on a material plane we shut ourselves out from the harmony of divine Mind. But this is not possible to thought which reflects God; for God is All, and we cannot, therefore, shut ourselves away from Him. Mrs. Eddy's statements of this fact in Christian Science are guiding thousands to their God-given heritage of harmony. In Science and Health, in the Manual of The Mother Church, and in her other writings, she directs her students into true thinking, and their efforts in this direction are repaid by their growth Spiritward.

The Psalmist says, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." But if we would have perfect protection, we must not visit "the secret place" only occasionally, we must dwell there. Jesus said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus he showed that persistent effort brings one freedom.

Mrs. Eddy counsels us to guard our thought daily against all the suggestions of evil which present themselves, since when we recognize them for what they are, namely, unreal, they lose their power to harm us. She says, "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210). Constant watchfulness is necessary. All the water in the sea could not sink a ship in a calm, unless the ship had a leak through which the water could enter.

Can we ever be grateful enough to our Leader for her teaching and example, and for all the faithful students who are striving to follow it, and who in a measure are attaining spiritual sense, the "conscious, constant capacity to understand God" (Science and Health, p. 209)? All true thinkers are lessening the load of mankind, the universal belief in evil, and are hastening the day when all men shall awake to their opportunity to prove through persistent effort that man has never fallen from the harmonious state which was his when "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy"!

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