Our Master, Christ Jesus, described the most "expressive silence" known to the human mind when he said (Matt. 6:6), "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." Such consecrated communion with divine Love silences the senses. It brings forth God's qualities, or the "fruit of the Spirit," which Paul designates as "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" (Gal. 5: 22, 23). Paul adds, "Against such there is no law."
In the daily round of human experience there may be many discordant incidents. But the moment that we turn from them to observe, through silent prayer, that God, divine Principle, governs the universe, we demonstrate the harmony that comes through spiritual understanding. This moment of "expressive silence" is described by Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings," where, after commenting at length upon the unchangeable greatness and goodness of God, she says (p. 124), "As we think thereon, man's true sense is filled with peace, and power; and we say, It is well that Christian Science has taken expressive silence wherein to muse His praise, to kiss the feet of Jesus, adore the white Christ, and stretch out our arms to God."
When we accept divine Love as the basis of our thoughts and actions, we can quickly silence the confusion of mortal mind, with its fears, doubts, mortal passions, and mesmeric suggestions. Thought becomes joyful and expectant. Out of such moments appears the harmonious action of divine Mind. The sorrowing are comforted; the sick are healed; the sinner is purified; the dying are restored to life. Into this harmony of being not one discordant element can enter.
