Article October 1, 1910 Issue

COMPARISONS

DR. H. ERNEST EVANS.

When Christian Scientists reflect upon what was a mere existence and compare it with the fuller life of joy and peace that they now know, they can but remember our Master's promise, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever," and realize the truth of our Leader's words, "This Comforter I understand to be divine Science" (Science and Health, p. 55).

Looking back upon the days full of fear, distrust, jealousy, and unsatisfied ambition, we wonder now how we could possibly have supported such an existence, for it seemed to hold out little hope of happiness this side the grave, and we dared not think of the shadowy prospects hereafter. We had grown weary of a world "where but to think is to be full of sorrow," and often, perchance, we had sighed for some Lethean vintage that would have enabled us to fade away into forgetfulness. Our greatest desire was to stifle thought, for, as it seemed, that way lay madness; and to this end many may have plunged into pleasure and drank its cup to the dregs, only to find disappointment and disillusion. Some of us, in a desire to escape from the materialism of a material age, may have dabbled in philosophy or spiritualism, hoping to get some rest for our souls but finding none, until at last we escaped from the bondage of false sense and found safe anchorage in the quiet waters of Christian Science.

How different now is our outlook, for we feel the abiding presence of a God of love and there is no room for fear. No longer do we plot out our day so as to leave little or no time for meditation, for thought to us has become a constant and blessed necessity, and we know we can take all our problems to Him who is the author of our being. What a comforting realization of all this one has when, perhaps in the midst of a rushing day, he can retire for a brief spell of quiet meditation in order to straighten out some seeming difficulty; how soon the cloud has melted away, so that he has wondered that it had ever seemed to exist, and in its stead there has come to the heart "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding."

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