After Thy Likeness

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness,—Psalm 17:15.

Before I heard the welcome message of Christian Science, brought to us by the inspired writings of our Leader, when I read this passage from the Psalms it only spoke to me of that state of bliss to which we had been taught death alone was the door. The awakening was believed to be the unclosing of our eyes after we had passed through death, upon the Paradise that lay on the other side of this strange and awful sleep. The true beauty of the passage was there fore obscured to me, and as I possessed an intense desire for life. I was disappointed that the longing for death was not uppermost, in order that I might awake with His likeness.

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