Article November 24, 1945 Issue

The Joy of Oneness

RACHEL M. PRATT

The joy which the world associates with and experts from Christian Scientists is not a Pollyannaish sort of happiness. It is an inevitable result of proving the Science of being.

When Jesus said, "Your joy no man taketh from you" (John 16:22), he was not speaking of surface smiles or of superficial amusement, but of that deep, inner joy which results from knowing that man is the beloved child of God.

Mary Baker Eddy makes a statement in "No and Yes" which has surely led to many heart-searchings. It is (p. 20), "Ever-present Love must seem ever absent to ever-present selfishness or material sense." Faltering joy and lack of gratitude can then only be traced, in the last analysis, to selfishness—preoccupation with a false sense of self, our own, so called, or others'.

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