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HUMILITY AND CHURCH SOLOS

From the October 1957 issue of The Christian Science Journal


In speaking of music, Mary Baker Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, (p. 11), "I want not only quality, quantity, and variation in tone, but the unction of Love." In these words is to be found the secret of a good church solo, the value of which surely lies in its healing effects, which, in turn, stem from spiritual qualities. Among these Godderived qualities are tenderness, freshness, compassion, joy, gratitude, and, perhaps most important of all because it opens the door to the obedient and faithful expression of all the rest, the quality of humility.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy goes so far as to say of humility (p. 356:) "This virtue triumphs over the flesh; it is the genius of Christian Science. One can never go up, until one has gone down in his own esteem. Humility is lens and prism to the understanding of Mind-healing."

"Lens and prism"! How precisely applicable are these words, since the humble and meek surrender of human will, human egotism, pride, stubbornness, and the like, opens the heart to the reception of all the lovely and vital spiritual qualities which are man's birthright as a spiritual idea of divine Love.

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