Article October 27, 1945 Issue

The "shadow of His right hand"

MARGUERITE LITTLE YOUNG

Early one morning a Christian Science practitioner was called to the telephone by a young friend who had recently lost her mother. "Will you help me today to see the unreality of grief, and especially this afternoon during the funeral service? I dread that hour," she said. The practitioner assured her that she would stand by, and then found herself quoting a sentence from page 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which she had just been reading: "Already the shadow of His right hand rests upon the hour." She realized she could apply this to the immediate need and know that no shadow of death or mesmerism of grief rested upon the hour of a supposed burial, but only the power and presence of divine Love, which heals all sense of loss or separation.

Other passages were recalled, such as the verse from the ninety-first Psalm: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty," and our Leader's well-known lines (Poems, p. 75):

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