Article October 19, 1912 Issue

REJOICING

JOHN F. BRAUN.

It is the Christian's province ever to rejoice. The fetters of his seeming enslavement fall when he turns his face smilingly toward divine Love. He who would look to Truth for his all, should strive to show to the world a brow unclouded, serene, and this cheerfulness must be the reflection of spiritual thought. We should never dignify the shadow, the seeming darkness, by turning upon it a lowering glance. The psalmist says, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." If we see clearly the absurdity of that thing which is trying to assert its reality, then our work is finished at that moment. Does it not seem preposterous to think that any form of evil should set itself up on a pedestal and claim to be as real as that which God creates, and then try to enforce its claim? There are moments when a sense of humor is a not to be despised therapeutical agent.

One of the fundamentals of Christian Science is in the sublime fact that we are "the sons of God," and St. John brings it down to the present moment when he adds to this statement that momentous word "now." We may search over the broad expanse of land and sea in vain for a better reason for happiness than this. The great "now" in which we are the sons of God is the eternal, the vital moment when this truth becomes clear to us. Many a time and oft we should ask ourselves the question, Why am I happy? The more dark seemingly the moment, the more searching should be the question, and the Bible as illumined by the teachings of Christian Science supplies the answer.

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