Article May 29, 1937 Issue

"Consolation to the sorrowing"

GATLING H. KING

Students of Christian Science, in times of sorrow, are grateful for the comfort and healing found in their religion. In her Preface to the Christian Science textbook Mary Baker Eddy makes it plain that one of its purposes is to "bear consolation to the sorrowing" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Pref., p. xii). Then, it behooves all Christian Scientists to make full use of this comfort, not only for their own peace of mind, but in order that the great healing power of divine Love may be more fully demonstrated to others.

No demonstration is more important than the overcoming of sorrow that often follows the passing of a loved one. A student's failure to meet this phase of evil courageously, betrays a lack of faith in the teachings of Christian Science. If he accepts the mortal mind belief that the passing of time is the remedy for sorrow, he is allowing himself to be cheated of a great blessing, namely, of the growth Spiritward which the Christianly scientific destruction of the claim of sorrow brings with it. It is by reversal of evil that "mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being" (ibid., p. 120).

There is a vast difference between the escape from sorrow that marks a fatalistic acceptance of death as inevitable, or selfish unconcern with the welfare of others, and the destruction of sorrow that comes through the right application of Christian Science. There is nothing bitter or indifferent in the consciousness of one who has found spiritual joy through reversing the claim of grief.

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