Editorial March 27, 1926 Issue

"Consolation in Christ"

Albert F. Gilmore

In his epistle to the Christians of Philippi, Paul pleaded for increased brotherly love, appealing to their deepest sense as Christians and to their noblest impulses to live in peace and concord. "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ. if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, ..." he implored, "fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." Thus earnestly did Paul plead for that unity among brethren which would enable them to carry forward the work of spreading the gospel of Christ Jesus, the healing truth which the world, sunk in the misery of materiality, so greatly needed. The consolation which is in Christ was uppermost in Paul's thought as the sole means whereby was to be gained the spirit of true fellowship, necessary to establish the bonds of peace.

"Consolation in Christ"! What possibilities of spiritual comfort are glimpsed in these simple words! How far above the human comfort of earthly woes was the consolation thus visualized, even the consolation which can be found only in communion with all-inclusive Love, through its divine Comforter, the Christ, Truth!

In the Christ-idea, the message from Truth and Love, Christian Scientists learn to find the consolation for all their woes, comfort for all their fears, compassion and forgiveness for all their mistakes. The human heart needs a Comforter. Even as the child turns to its earthly parent for comfort and consolation, in full assurance that it will meet tenderness and gentle solicitude as balm to its grievous wounds, so the student of Christian Science, cognizant that the loving presence of the waiting Christ is ever ready to calm and console the troubled heart, looks to this divine messenger in full expectation of merciful release.

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