Article August 3, 1899 Issue

The Larger Life

BY WALDO PONDRAY WARREN

THAT Christian Science can and does heal the sick, has been told in song and story, in spoken and written testimony, by countless grateful hearts—hearts from which the Christ-Truth has rolled away a stone. But the songs of gratitude for physical deliverance which are ascending up forever and ever, are as but the first feeble efforts of childhood's music-making to the rapturous symphonies of the masters of music, compared with the untold joys of a liberated and purified consciousness, as it learns to lay hold on the infinite, repeat the harmony of heaven, and awake in the likeness of Love.

Passing pain and its soon told tale, we press on to life's larger lessons, and begin to learn the vastness of the new universe into which we have been born by the priceless understanding of Christian Science.

The Christ Truth dawns as a bright star above the chaos of the past, and says within the heart, "Let there be Light!" It rends the rocks and barriers, and reveals the way toward the realization of the highest ideals. It awakens us to realize that life is really worth living, that not for nothing are our patient footsteps onward taken. It gives a purpose to live for, a reason for existing, and a higher hope, a fuller breath, a grander view. It reveals cause and effect, and makes plain things which have been secret from the foundation of the world. It answers the queries of the ages, "Who am I? What am I? Where am I?" It quenches the fires of passion latent in the recesses of thought, and lights the flames' on the Mount of Revelation. It surrounds us with those we love, by teaching us how to love those around us. It is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,—the Way of progress toward the perception and appreciation of the infinite; the Truth for which the ages have yearned; the Life, hid with Christ in God—the mansions in our Father's house, even our dwelling-place in all generations.

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