Editorial November 25, 1939 Issue

The Fulfillment of Joy

Evelyn F. Heywood

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 232): "The beliefs we commonly entertain about happiness and life afford no scatheless and permanent evidence of either. Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science."

It was prophesied of the Messiah that he would be "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." Christ Jesus did not minimize the sacrifices he had been willing to make and that would be called for from his followers in taking up the cross, in living a life of service rather than selfindulgence; but as a result, he promised not sorrow but joy, and joy not in part, but in completeness—fullness of joy. As he talked to the disciples of the Father's love and their safe abidance therein, he assured them that the joy which was his would also be fulfilled in them, and that no one would be able to take it from them. "Ask," he exhorted them, "and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."

The sorrows which have fallen upon the human race have not been caused because the joy revealed and experienced by Christ Jesus has become inaccessible, but because the means of entering into possession of happiness has been set aside. The human race has sought for happiness as it has sought for life, where there is no safety, no continuity, no fulfillment.

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