Article September 5, 1959 Issue

THE COMPASSIONATE TOUCH

MARY LEE GOUGH NAY

There is no greater expression of compassion in human language than the Beatitudes of Christ Jesus. All the elements of Christliness are mentioned, and the rewarding, healing effect of their activity in human consciousness is set forth. Small wonder, then, that when our Way-shower had finished his sermon he came down from the mount and without effort healed alike the outcast leper and the centurion's servant. Whatever and whoever he touched was healed.

There have always been men and women who have longed for this healing power. But not until Mary Baker Eddy explained the Science of Christianity did mankind begin to glimpse the fact that there is as much law in the "blessed are ye" of the Beatitudes as in the "thou shalt not" of the Mosaic Decalogue.

God's demands are in the Beatitudes: to be merciful, to be meek, to long for righteousness, to be pure in heart, to love peace and pursue it even as children of God, and to endure persecution with joy. These compassionate qualities, when cultivated, have their lawful, certain, permanent rewards. Nor is the exercise of compassion limited in its scope and application. We are to be merciful and pure, not alone toward our own family or our own people, but toward all, excluding no one.

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