Article April 4, 1925 Issue

"We glory in tribulations"

JUSTINE ROBERTS

In the fifth chapter of Romans Paul writes, "We glory in tribulations." For a long time these words caused a sense of resentment in the thought of the writer; it seemed so foolish to rejoice over the ills that beset human existence. Since then she has learned, through the study of Christian Science, the fuller import of Paul's words.

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." To know the truth is to realize that man is made in the image and likeness of God; that in reality man has no part in anything unlike God, good; or, in other words, that man reflects good.

Paul was learning to prove the words of our Master; and he gloried in tribulation because he saw in it an opportunity to reverse the evil by declaring and proving the all-power of God. Whenever he passed through any of the human experiences of the mortal dream, he rejoiced in that it afforded another opportunity to know the truth, as Jesus said, and to prove with absolute certainty that man is made free through this knowing. As his vision widened, Paul was enabled to write, "I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, ... nor things present, not things to come, ... nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." He could write this with conviction, for he had proved it many times.

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