Editorial May 1, 1926 Issue

True Companionship

Ella W. Hoag

There are few things believed to be dearer to the human heart than companionship. To be associated frequently with those whose society tends to enhance one's happiness is one of mankind's fondest dreams. So universally is companionship looked upon as a necessity that men have come to believe that without it human life would not be worth the living. And yet how insecure has seemed to be the hold upon the association deemed most desirable. How many hearts have seemed to live through the years apparently all solitary, looking out, perhaps in envy, upon what was supposed to be the blissful enjoyment of those surrounded by many friends; while often those in the midst of such companionship may have lacked the heart sympathy and joy generally supposed to accompany close association with others!

And why this frequent cry for deliverance from solitariness? Why this frequent longing for a satisfying companionship which seems so difficult to grasp? How plainly the answer comes: Since selfishness is something naturally abhorrent to any right consciousness, no happiness can be complete which is not shared! And why is the ordinary human experience in its effort after true companionship attended with so much of disappointment and apparent failure? Again the answer comes quickly: Because the effort has been made so largely from a selfish, personal standpoint that its foundations have been merely the shifting, unstable sands of personal desire and personal preference!

Christian Science has come to correct this. It has come to bring the understanding of a divine unity with God and our brother that will do away with all that is fleeting and false, with all that is disappointing and heart-wringing, and will establish companionship on such a spiritual foundation as shall protect all that is true in our present experience, while at the same time lifting it into a consciousness where only that which is perfect and eternal can appear.

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