Article December 30, 1950 Issue

FEELING LOVE'S COMPASSIONATE TOUCH

L. IVIMY GWALTER

"COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. ... Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together," wrote the prophet Isaiah (40:1,4,5).

The world seeks comfort from a materialistic basis and through a humanized conception of God, but the error of thought which accepts as real the discords of sense, often believing that God is responsible for them, comes under its own mesmerism and affords no comfort. It experiences no lasting peace and feels no assurance of security. Christ Jesus demonstrated true comfort. In the strength of his holy understanding the errors of corporeal sense faded into nothingness before the unbroken harmony of Soul.

"As Christian Scientists you seek to define God to your own consciousness by feeling and applying the nature and practical possibilities of divine Love," writes Mary Baker Eddy in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 1). Words alone do not define God, nor can the material senses take cognizance of Him or tell us what is real or unreal. To feel the nature of divine Love and apply its practical possibilities, God must be scientifically understood.

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