Rejoice!

In a well-loved solo, sometimes sung in Christian Science services, the words, "Rejoice evermore," repeatedly occur. And to many a weary and heavy-laden heart they have brought peace and solace. When they are scientifically understood, their import for good is great.

We learn through Christian Science to deny the testimony of the false material senses, and to understand that this Science is based on the teachings of the great Master, Jesus the Christ, who said, as John tells us, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." When the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, was the only Christian Scientist on earth, a woman standing by herself for her convictions, so greatly did she love God and man that she was able to withstand the ridicule and malicious misrepresentation of the world so completely that she could give the practical healing method of God's Word to the world, in direct opposition to the erroneous judgment of men. She, in truth, was judging righteous judgment when she denied the reality of sin and disease. And she greatly rejoiced with those who were thus brought from the bondage of ill health and sinful appetites. Well did she realize that the joyous knowing of God's omnipotence in the face of adversity would hasten the time of freedom for all.

To follow in the way of God's appointing, Christian Scientists must, therefore, rejoice,—rejoice all the way of life's journey. Those who have earnestly taken up the study of the Science of being feel as if it were sometimes no easy road they travel; for they have "enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death," as Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 450). They must always "judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." Into the material world struggling along, often discouraged, beaten about by one unfortunate circumstance after another, groaning, suffering, hating,—in short, expressing the sordidness of material thinking,—comes Christian Science with its gospel of pure thinking, its joyous activity of good, its love for mankind. The methods of Christian Science are simple; and its lectures, its services, its Reading Rooms, its literature distribution work, all show the joy of giving freely and unstintedly for the good of others. All these blessings are free for the taking. Mortals, here and there, still fail to see the results of the Christian Science movement; but many, even if not interested themselves, have relatives and friends who have felt the beneficent influence of God's truth as taught in Christian Science and are rejoicingly acknowledging it.

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