Article July 6, 1946 Issue

Comfort—Human and Divine

ELIZABETH SUDBOROUGH VICKERMAN

A Small girl, walking with her mother against a bitter wind in a heavy snowstorm, suddenly ran a few steps forward. Then turning around and looking up into her mother's face she said joyously, "Mother, don't we take comfort together!" In the midst of the cold and distress of the blizzard, the child was aware of a beloved and loving presence, whose nearness overshadowed all impressions except those of protection and happy companionship.

The perfect man, God's spiritual idea, needs no human comfort, for God's image is never grief-stricken, friendless, poor, or ill. Man is ever inseparable from God, the source and substance of his existence. Man is perpetually conscious of his Father's support and care, eternally cognizant of the harmony afforded him by God, who is all-enduring good. The realization of these and similar truths brings strength and healing to human thought, which seems often to be in need of comfort.

Christian Scientists of all people should be true comforters, for their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, through her writings reveals the import of the words of Jesus (John 14:16, 17), "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth." Of this passage, Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 55), "This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science."

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