Article August 1, 1914 Issue

Unity in Life

MILDRED SPRING CASE, A.B.

To those struggling under the heavy sense of grief which this world says must follow what seems to be the loss of our loved ones through death, Christian Science comes as a healing balm. It tells us there is no death, for God is Life, and we look up in dazed wonder, trying to grasp the meaning which the inner voice tells us is surely true. So, as we hold fast the truth about God and man, we reach out and up for this sense of Life, which tells us of the unity of all God's children. We learn that our loved ones are still alive and may be looking back on the experience called death, wondering how they could ever have believed in its reality. They have found that God's children cannot die, that Life is continuous, everlasting, eternal.

The Bible says, "In him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Then if God is our Life, and God is everlasting, unchangeable, how could our loved ones die? Indeed we may feel ourselves nearer to them than ever before, if we are reaching out for the spiritual, for we know that we are both living in God. Even the most material of their friends here are now thinking of them as spiritual. The bondage of fear has thus been in a measure loosened, and they may be more free to understand God. If, as Christian Science teaches, there is only one Spirit, one Mind, and we are all in that Mind as God's eternal thoughts, how can we be apart? In so far as we learn to understand God, and to realize that He is Life, so far will we feel the nearness of our loved ones in the one Mind. There is nothing melancholy or far away about it; it is comforting, and near, and now.

God is Love! He is not cruel, else He would not be God. Jesus said, "Your joy no man taketh from you." We all dwell in Mind, and by realizing God's presence we are near our loved ones, no matter where a material sense of limitation may place them. The only thing that could ever die is the belief in death and in materiality, the false sense of life. And how much closer this brings us to our loved ones! On page 42 of "Unity of Good," Mrs. Eddy says, "Life, God, being everywhere, it must follow that death can be nowhere; because there is no place left for it." In John we read, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." The one Mind is, now and always, here and everywhere. By ever reaching out and seeking to know God, we too may share His heaven.

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