Article June 8, 1957 Issue

"BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN"

BERYL O. KITTS

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 295): "I sympathize with those who mourn, but rejoice in knowing our dear God comforts such with the blessed assurance that life is not lost; its influence remains in the minds of men, and divine Love holds its substance safe in the certainty of immortality. 'In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.' (John 1:4.)" Our Master, Christ Jesus, promised (John 14:16), "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever." And he also said (verse 18), "I will not leave you comfortless."

To those who are bowed down with grief and who are yearning for release from sorrow, the teachings of Christian Science bring real comfort. It may perhaps seem to the sufferer that grief cannot be healed instantly and that only with the passing of time can the distress be alleviated. Yet many have proved that this is not so. Well-authenticated testimonies are often given in The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and The Herald of Christian Science by those who have been lifted completely out of the experience of grief or any sense of bereavement.

Divine Science is the Comforter! It reaffirms the great theme of the Bible, namely that God, Love, is All. Christian Science teaches that God is Life, thus lifting all sense of existence above materiality and revealing existence as inseparable from the creator, God. All being is seen to be the effect of the Divine Being, Spirit, which is never in nor of matter. Thus the manifestation of Life, God, is understood to be enterely separate from any sense of a physical body. Life is not organic. The material heart, lungs, and so forth, do not support Life; they never have and never will. Life, therefore, can never be interrupted by the death of a material body. Life is eternal.

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