Article March 20, 1954 Issue

CHRISTLIKE COMPASSION

DOROTHY A. EREAUT

God is Love, and divine Love is reflected in love which finds human expression in affection, benevolence, tenderness, and compassion. The Christ, or divine manifestation of God, comes to the human sense of existence and with divine compassion gently lifts thought above the finite and often unhappy belief of life in matter to the spiritual and eternal, where all true being forever exists in perfect harmony. The realization of the spiritual perfection of the universe and man heals the sick, comforts the sorrowing, and redeems the sinner.

Christ Jesus spoke to his disciples of the Comforter, or spirit of Truth, which should come after he had departed from the earthly scene. This Comforter, or revelation of the ever-presence of the healing Christ, is made manifest through Christian Science.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy devotes the first few pages of her chapter entitled "Christian Science Practice" to preparing the thought of the student for the holy work of spiritual healing. She stresses the fact that Christian Science healing is based on divine Love, and that an essential quality of thought for the practitioner of this Science is Christlike compassion. She writes (pp. 366, 367): "If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the brokenhearted. If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form, nor bury the morale of Christian Science in the grave-clothes of its letter. The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love."

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