Article May 12, 1956 Issue

THE COMFORTER

ETHEL L. SINEATH

In no other one thing is the Bible more specific than in its teachings of the love of God for His children. In Isaiah we read (66:13), "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." And Christ Jesus, who faithfully pro-pounded the Word of God and demonstrated its healing power, said to his disciples (John 14:16), "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever."

Today this Comforter has come. It is available to all in a form easy to understand and utilize. Through the teachings of Christian Science the Comforter is revealed as the impersonal Christ, Truth. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.332), "Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth." And in referring to the Master's words quoted earlier, she states (ibid., p.55), "This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science."

Students of this Science accept their Leader's statement that Christian Science is the Comforter, the Christ-thought which Jesus demonstrated and which he promised would be made available to all. They are proving that it is accomplishing that which Jesus said the Comforter would do. Christian Science is based on the words and works of Christ Jesus and has established their verity through demonstration and fulfillment of that which was promised, namely (John 16:13), "When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth."

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