A lion’s roar isn’t easily ignored. According to Mary Baker Eddy’s interpretation of St. John’s revelation, “The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, ‘as when a lion roareth.’ It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 559). Isn’t it interesting that the voice of Truth is both “inaudible” and as loud as “a lion”? Inaudible, that is, to the ear, but unmistakably rousing to human thought.
In our noisy information age, why does it seem that the voice of Christian Science is sometimes lost in the crowd? One explanation may be that we need to rouse ourselves and state without timidity what is truly distinct and invaluable about this Science!
Mrs. Eddy was masterful at drawing such distinctions. For example, she writes in Science and Health: “Works on metaphysics leave the grand point untouched. They never crown the power of Mind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against physical enemies,—even to the extinction of all belief in matter, evil, disease, and death,—nor insist upon the fact that God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind” (p. 116).
