Article September 8, 1951 Issue

"YOUR JOY NO MAN TAKETH FROM YOU"

BETTY PARROTT

A Feeling of being left behind, of being lonely or unloved, is often the source of much secret anguish. Sometimes it eludes rejection by wearing the guise of legitimate grief, by even assuming a false semblance of virtue, purporting to be the measure of one's loyalty or affection. But if in the clear light of Christian Science one looks it fearlessly in the face, this feeling of loneliness is seen to spring from the acceptance of the sense evidence that one's arrival into and departure out of matter constitute his real existence, and that the happiness or unhappiness of such so-called existence depends largely upon the timings of many other differing arrivals and departures.

Christian Science, however, reveals a different state of affairs to be the actual fact of existence. Through spiritual sense it unfolds the truth of being. Thereby man is seen to be made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit, as the Bible declares, the everlasting expression of the one Mind, or Principle, and inseparable from divine Life and Love and its joyous universe of spiritual ideas.

Perceiving and proving this by her works more clearly than anyone else since the days of Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy wrote of this truth with infinite compassion in the second verse of her "Communion Hymn" (Poems, p. 75):

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