Article August 10, 1946 Issue

"Neither shall there be any more pain"

ADAM A. HILLEBRAND

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" (Rev. 21:4). Multitudes of earnest Bible students have prayed and hoped for centuries that these comforting Scriptural words uttered by St. John in the first century of the Christian era might be fulfilled.

Why has mankind thus far failed to realize this most desired millennial state of existence? Is not its consent to the false claim of the human mind that there is life, intelligence, substance, and sensation in matter the reason? Is not its failure explained by its belief that pain and suffering, in fact all the diseases of men, are in or of the physical body, or matter, and must therefore be healed in or through matter?

Through the Christ, the truth about God and man, as revealed to mankind in the teachings of Christian Science, John's prophecy can be fulfilled in individual experience. In Christian Science man is an individual consciousness, the son of God, the idea or reflection of infinite Mind. An understanding of this scientific fact enables men to demonstrate man's God-given freedom from all "that flesh is heir to.' from sin and sickness, from pain and pleasure in matter, yea, from all the illusions of a material sense of life.

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