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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

"A persuasive animus"


7.6.15.   Having now re-read the Foreword, I am thinking that it was perhaps dictated to Mr. Strang by Mrs. Eddy. To me, it reads like her writing.

9.6.15.  This morning I read the first page of Mrs. Eddy’s “Choose Ye” (page 3 of our book) and was thrilled with her definition of Christian Science in the second paragraph. I loved it so much - such a feeling of goodness - and I have sometimes experienced it as a “persuasive animus”, an “unerring impetus”, “an ever-present help.” Then I read the Lesson Sermon on God the Preserver of Man from the Christian Science Quarterly. How the first section's Bible verses equated with that definition for me. This is not something one can put into words. Except to say that it gives a warm feeling around the heart.

Here is an excerpt from Section 1 of this week's Bible Lesson:


For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields;

 
About the “warm feeling around the heart”, readers may like to look up (on JSH-Online) my testimony from the June 1973 edition of The Christian Science Journal.

Joyce Voysey

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