Article August 4, 1934 Issue

"Loss is gain"

GWENDOLEN ARNOLD

A study of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, as told by herself in "Retrospection and Introspection," or in the biographies by Sibyl Wilbur and Dr. Lyman P. Powell, leaves the reader deeply impressed with her progressive activity in the gain of spiritual ideas, which replaced the loss of things material. In the following stanza of her poem "Mother's Evening Prayer" our Leader has beautifully expressed her heartfelt desire to draw closer to God through the joyous acceptance of loss as gain (Poems, p. 4):

"O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain."

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