Editorial May 30, 1953 Issue

THE COMFORT OF SCIENCE

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science comforts the bereaved as assuredly as it heals the sick. It takes the sting from death and fills the mourner's heart with peace. It does this by revealing a higher sense of life, in which man is known as God's image, inseparable from the Father and held by Him in the consciousness of immortal life. This Science explains the mortal sense of existence to be a dream state, of which the shadow of death is but a deeper phase. More than once Christ Jesus described death as sleep, and often the Scriptures follow this custom. Our understanding that death is in reality only a deep sleep comforts us in times of bereavement, and brings us nearer to full dominion over that cruel illusion.

Paul wrote to his friends (I Thess. 4:13), "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." Persistently he led men to recognize that the Master's resurrection was proof that life never dies; that man is spiritual and continues to live forever. He roused many to know the Christ as the true idea of sonship and to awaken to life in Christ by expressing the deathless qualities of divine sonship. This was the goal he set before Christians, and it is the objective of demonstration in Christian Science. Good cannot die, and immortality can be demonstrated only by our expressing good. Unselfed love, justice, and purity evidence immortal manhood, and when the divine character is more fully expressed by mankind the belief of death will cease to delude them.

Christian Science opens new vistas of life and a more permanent basis of association. It inspires its students to consider existence in terms of eternity rather than the brief time allotted to mortals on earth; to discern man's coexistence with God, his unbroken continuity of identity as Spirit's emanation; and to hold real relationship with others to be spiritual unity in the understanding and expression of wisdom and joy, love and intelligence. Such association alone has reality or substance. Personal association on any other basis, however cherished, has no more substance than a dream.

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