Article January 18, 1941 Issue

"Love wipes your tears all away"

ALICE S. HINKSON

Down the ages, the testimony of material sense has maintained that in the passing of loved ones from our sight we have lost something we held very precious—love and understanding; it argues that we are separated from a companionship or friendship no longer possible. Christian Science shows us that these arguments arise from a mistaken belief that life is in matter, and illumines thought with the spiritual light of Life. It teaches us that Life is God, and that man, as God's idea, is therefore eternal; furthermore, it assures us that the spiritual qualities which made our loved ones near and dear to us are eternal, and that God's ideas can never be separated from infinite Life.

In the healing mission of the master Christian, Christ Jesus, who proved life to be eternal for others and for himself, we have an example of that gentle and compassionate love which wipes all tears away. It was the love which reflects God, and he showed that it comforts, sustains, heals, and saves.

It is recorded in the Gospel of Luke that on one occasion, as Jesus came near to the gates of a city, he beheld a mournful scene, a widow bowed with grief at the passing of her only son. With ineffable tenderness he turned to the sorrowing mother and, as the record states, "had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." And then he restored her son to her. Christ Jesus knew that her grief was without cause, since God alone is Life, and through his compassionate love and understanding, proved the truth, and thus wiped her tears away. His consideration for this sorrowing mother has brought inspiration to countless Christian Scientists, and many have found themselves healed of grief when, in gentle ministrations to other sorrowing ones, they have themselves learned to know "the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."

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