Editorial June 1, 1957 Issue

"THE CHRIST, COMFORTER"

Helen Wood Bauman

Because God is Love and because Love is universal, divine mercy is present everywhere to comfort mankind. Christ Jesus proved this to be true by his many compassionate works. When he was about to leave the world, he said to his disciples (John 14:16, 17), "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth." And he promised, "I will not leave you comfortless."

"The Spirit of truth" is the Christ, the divine nature, which man in God's likeness embodies. This divine nature, which all may express, has power over the carnal, or mortal, mind; and it comfortingly wipes out whatever is unlike God's creation of good. Speaking of the spirit of divine Love which Jesus possessed, practiced, and taught, Mary Baker Eddy says (Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 9), "This spirit of God is made manifest in the flesh, healing and saving men,—it is the Christ, Comforter, 'which taketh away the sin of the world.'"

Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Divine Science has brought to the world this Comforter, "the Spirit of truth," which frees in merciful ways those who find themselves caught by the mortal sense of life in its web of sin and sickness, strife and poverty. The spirit of Truth and Love existed before Jesus expressed the mercy of God, and it exists today. Centuries of mortal darkness could not put out the light which Divine Science reveals in its universality. Like a vivid thread, this merciful Christ-spirit appears in the fabric of religious history recorded in the Scriptures.

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