Mary Baker Eddy makes this thought-provoking query in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 116): "Are we filling the measures of life's music aright, emphasizing its grand strains, swelling the harmony of being with tones whence come glad echoes?" Each one may profitably ask himself this question today when the glad strains of life need to be heard, and can be heard, above earth's discordant sounds.
The pitiful cry of millions at this period is, "How can I hear aught but the dissonance produced by fear, threats of war, human domination, nations in commotion?" Christian Science has a simple yet profound answer in Mrs. Eddy's statement (Miscellany, p. 152), "To-day, if ye would hear His voice, listen to His Word and serve no other gods."
In order to emphasize life's grand strains, one must first have learned how to exclude discordant thoughts or sounds from consciousness and to listen spiritually. Only when one silences the material senses can he hear the great verities of being. The ability to listen for God's Word and to hear it derives from prayer, from communion with God. What is God's Word? It is Truth itself, revealing the real nature of man as the emanation of God, as His exact reflection, governed by the divine Principle, Love; it is the Christ Science, the law of God, demonstrating harmony and showing forth God's universe as peopled by His ideas only.
