The Comfort of Christian Science

EMILY E. DELBRIDGE

Christian Science , as set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has come to humanity as the answer to prayer. All through the centuries there have been rising to God from countless hungering hearts silent petitions for a better sense of life, a more enduring substance, purer and fairer human relationships, and for health untouched by sickness, feebleness, and death.

We are shown in this great teaching that the good we have sought and intuitively known to be available for us is ours now to claim and to manifest. We know we have a right to all these blessings, for the Bible tells us that we are the children of God, and that God is Love; so, as children of Love, we inherit all good, for infinite Love must necessarily confer the fullness of good upon its offspring. By this knowledge of God the mistaken beliefs which we formerly held, and to which the material senses bear witness, that man is fabricated from materiality and the lusts of the flesh, are disproved. This revelation, that "now are we the sons of God," enables us to lay hold on the undying, harmonious, immortal substance of which Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 468): "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: 'The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'" This substance or Mind which is reflected in man, constitutes true being and cannot be touched by any sense of limitation, for there is no power or presence but God.

As these truths about a perfect God and His perfect man fill our thought through the consecrated daily study of the Bible and Science and Health, and the faithful effort to put them into practice in all the details of daily living, our thought gradually becomes more spiritual and our experience shows a greater degree of harmony.

If one is selfish and self-centered, his relationships, both personal and business, may seem to be restricted and inharmonious; but when he lets the light of Love into his heart, he learns to express consideration toward his fellows. As a plant turns to the sun so one's associates feel the influence of his love and begin to give him more co-operation and helpfulness. Thus all are blessed in a fuller expression of brotherhood.

Perhaps another is bound by some form of disability or disease, which restricts his happiness and usefulness. This one also can take hope and courage from the Bible admonition and promise, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." One of these "added things" is health, and when we let the pure, harmonious thoughts of Life, Truth, and Love, which are the only substance, come into consciousness, they drive out the discordant, inharmonious thoughts of which sickness is an outward manifestation. Then sickness disappears, and health is made manifest.

In such ways was one student led step by step out of the darkness of finite belief into a fuller understanding of Life as God. With the aid of a consecrated practitioner, she was healed of a great sense of grief at the passing on of a loved one, was enabled to solve business difficulties, and was helped in many other ways to overcome the frightened sense of being alone. She learned that when alone with God one is satisfied in the consciousness of God's presence and in the knowledge that "we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another," dwelling in Him, and knowing no thought of separation.

The only way in which to show our gratitude for Christ Jesus and Christian Science and for all who have held aloft the banner of Truth is to consecrate thought and action to making manifest the Christ, Truth, thereby chasing out the darkness of mortal thought and letting the glories of Spirit appear and transform the earth.

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Christian Science College Organizations

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