Life, Truth, and Love for All

A hymn is a song of gratitude and devotion to God for all that God, Mind, Love does. A hymn can be a prayer and open the way to harmony. There are hymns that I have held on to for so many years and they continue to give my comfort, harmony, peace and healing.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science wrote seven hymns which her students and the worldwide Christian Science community regularly use. They are in the Christian Science hymnal as well. Many have been healed by praying with these lovely words or divine Love’s all-comforting presence and power.

When you get into each hymn, there is a tone of one or more characteristics of the Divine presence. We feel the healing power of the tone, and become receptive to the Truth that disrobes and exterminates the clinging discord, error.

The seven main characteristics of God which are found in Mrs. Eddy’s teaching and in her book, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, are: Mind, Spiri, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. From these names and characteristics of God, come innumerable ideas, qualities, aspects, ingredients, concepts, of each characteristic.

From Mind comes intelligence, creativity, knowledge, allness, light, awareness, cause, effect. From Spirit comes purity, all good, substance, reality, spirituality. From Soul comes joy, cheer, happiness, identity, spiritual sense, sinlessness, satisfaction, freedom. From Principle comes, harmony, logic, science, scientific thought, clarity, order, law, government, right governing, command, ruling. From Life comes eternity, activity, energy, movement, individuality, self-existence. From Truth comes truthfulness, healing, victory, affirmation, consciousness, the ideal, Christ, sonship, health, wholeness. From Love comes comfort, caring, care, perfection, loveliness, fulfillment, glory.

All these qualities are found in Christian Science hymns, songs, psalms, poems, prayers, if they are spiritually expressed, for only Spirit can express the nature of God, the all-good.

How many times have I been so filled with the loveliness and harmony of a hymn, and it would not leave me. David in the Bible knew the healing presence and harmony in his psalms he sang to his flock of sheep, giving them blessings, and to himself. Jesus gave us one prayer only, called the Lord’s Prayer. It is also like a hymn or a psalm. It is also set to music. I cannot help but think of Job praying with songs of gratitude and praise. He needed the comfort that a hymn as a divine tool, provides.

The Lords prayer has the tones of Mind, Spirit, Sole, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. Jesus provides all his followers, in all era, even today, with a prayer, a psalm, that meets every need.

I will now close my eyes and get one with the divine tones of my favorite prayer, song, psalm: The Lord’s Prayer. ” Our Father which art ii heaven, Hollowed be thy name.”