Article February 13, 1926 Issue

"If we faint not"

LOIS PASCHAL

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 322) Mrs. Eddy says: "The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life in divine Science. Without this process of weaning, 'Canst thou by searching find out God?'"

During the study of this passage, attention was arrested by the significance of the word "weaning." The word "wean" means "to reconcile to giving up or to the loss of former pleasures or possessions, especially by insensible degrees; as, He weaned himself from stimulants; she was weaned from society." It thus appeared to the student that "this process of weaning" may be both active and passive.

When the light of Truth, as taught in Christian Science, first dawns upon the waiting thought, and "we begin to learn Life in divine Science," how easy it is to give up that which we have already proved to be undesirable, unsatisfying, without real substance—nothing! We are more than ready to wean ourselves from certain forms of bondage to matter. This willing obedience places us immediately in a period of joyful realization; for the first taste of the new life is indeed most sweet. One finds himself so free and so able to free others; living becomes a song of gratitude and delight.

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