IT is not often that students of Christian Science have their Bible Lesson so wonderfully presented, as was the experience of those in St. Louis and vicinity on the twenty-seventh of May, 1896. Both points of the subject, "Error's destruction; and the Kingdom of God established, as foretold by Jesus," were to some extent illustrated in demonstration. The Friday evening meeting following brought out a fullness of experience, of deep gratitude and joy in the demonstrated realization, that each and all of mankind, have, in Christian Science, a sure refuge in time of need.
The meeting opened with Hymn No. 39, and the 91st Psalm, also the words of Jesus in Luke 13: 3— 5. As to the moral status of those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were they sinners above all others? "I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish"; answering the same question arising in the hearts of many as to the cause of so great destruction coming to St. Louis and East St. Louis. Of the Science and Health reading, the first paragraph on page 368 was full of significant meaning. In every one of the many experiences given was prominent the verification of the power of Truth and Love to overcome the sense-evidence of danger and fear.
Not least among the demonstrations were those' where some members of the family were at their work in what was apparent to be the track of an awful storm, and who did not return as the darkness of a night of mortal terror settled down over a great city without light other than the vivid flashes of lightning. In these homes where Christian Science was the Light, that light left no dark terrors for those who waited, or those who were delayed. Many who were in the track of desolation, and saw error's awful destruction all about them, realized that the power of the inward witness of Spirit was master of mortal fear, or error's apparent power to harm. The greatest material loss to anyone resulted, to that one, in a most beautiful fulfillment of Jesus' promises,— an experience that can only be feebly told in words.
