Article April 4, 1931 Issue

"Weep not"!

SADIE HYMAN SWETT

The Master, Christ Jesus, said, "Weep not;" and we should obey this injunction. Sorrow is never welcome. It has seemed to come to most of us, and sometimes we have been a long while getting rid of it. How grateful we can be to God, then, for having sent us a remedy for sorrow, as well as for every other ill!

"I have a great sorrow," says one. "Do you mean to tell me that it is possible for me to be freed from it?" The answer is contained in the prophecy of Isaiah: "The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Isaiah's joyous prophecy may be fulfilled to-day. We do not have to waste any more moments in unavailing tears. God's plan for His beloved sons and daughters, for each one of us, is ceaseless joy, endless life, unlimited strength and peace.

When dear ones pass from our sight, why do we weep? We may think that it is because we cannot see them or talk with them. We weep simply because of what we are mistakenly believing. To illustrate: If someone very dear to us—let us say a child—goes off to school, he passes beyond our vision; but we do not sit down and weep about it. We know what is true about the situation, namely, that this one is continuing his activities beyond the range of our vision; and we go happily about our own immediate task. So it should always be even in meeting the experience of sorrow arising from the departure through death of loved ones. Eternal life knows no beginning and no ending, and man in God's likeness is immortal.

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