"The horn of my salvation"

Violet Ker Seymer

David speaks allegorically of "the horn of my salvation," symbolizing the power of salvation. As a musical instrument, the horn unquestionably challenges attention. Christian Science is the clarion call of the Christ, challenging the world's attention by its exalted teachings and their practical results in human experience. It points out the way of salvation and exposes the futility of attempting to heal human difficulties by material means. In every case a problem must be seen as a metaphysical, not a physical issue. The only absolutely true and scientific way to solve human problems, including the one known as disease, is to deal with them metaphysically, from a mental attitude above that of the problem.

The average individual is apt to accept most thoughts that come to him, without discrimination, and the result is often chaotic. Christian Science teaches one the secret of thought-censorship on the basis of the one infinite divine Mind, whose thoughts alone are real and beneficent.

When a man lying on a couch was brought to him, Jesus said to the scribes who were present, "Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?" Incidentally, the Master here pointed out the ease with which the truth about God and man can destroy the mortal beliefs of sin and disease and bring those laid low to their feet, morally and physically. The man was told to rise and walk. To his hearing ear came the sound of the horn of salvation. The rising demanded of him included a mental rising, else it could not have resulted in his physical rising. The same demand holds good today in the practice of Christian Science. We are bidden to rise above erroneous concepts and obey the dictates of Truth if we would enjoy its freedom. It is impossible to achieve success in Christian Science while disregarding the voice of conscience, and it is equally impossible to fail while obeying each call to go up higher in thought and deed.

In "An Allegory" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 328) Mrs. Eddy refers to "the Stranger" as "the ever-present Christ" calling, "Make thine own way; and if thou strayest, listen for the mountain-horn, and it will call thee back to the path that goeth upward." "The mountain-horn" symbolizes the truth and its supreme attraction. It awakens thought to apprehend divine Love that knows no hate, and Life that knows no death. The truth of being proclaims the might of divine Mind, the joy of pure thinking, the harmony of true feeling, the perfection of spiritual identity.

Christian Scientists are being roused from the stupor of materialism. In a degree, they are hearing and heeding the grand ideas of divine Mind, which lead them steadily onward in their demonstration of true manhood. This elevation of thought above material concepts results in the healing of sickness, the overcoming of sin, in the manifestation of increased intelligence, efficiency, reliability. Whoever works and prays from the standpoint of spiritual perfection is destined to rise above every sense of human imperfection.

The Revelator, spiritually illumined, speaks of the "voice . . . as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither. ...And immediately I was in the spirit." "Immediately"! Spiritual inspiration is entirely separate from the human beliefs of time and space and is unhampered by them.

The thought of man as now spiritual, now perfect, now immune from all disease, now immortal, is so sweeping that it may leave one uncertain as to how to begin to rise above the sense of human imperfection. It may be said that the Christian Scientist, applying the truth of these teachings, ascends the ladder of demonstration on the rungs of nay and yea; in other words, by the scientific denial of evil and affirmation of good, reflected in thought and carried out in action. Our yea and nay must be rightly placed and maintained if we too would waken to find ourselves "immediately ... in the spirit."

What speeds our spiritual growth? Prayer, study, demonstration. Are we listening to the dirge of despair or to the mountain horn? The alert Christian Scientist, dropping dismal doubts, chooses the way of the mountain horn, the way of obedience to divine Principle; and in the measure of his devout allegiance is he rewarded a thousandfold here and now. Every day he can prove himself by definite demonstrations mindful of Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 2 of "Rudimental Divine Science": "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness."

Violet Ker Seymer

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