Article October 8, 1966 Issue

Companioning with Reality

WILLIAM ROBERT SUDDABY

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 Mrs. Eddy makes this thought-provoking statement: "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."^{'01., p. 20;} Aloneness is a condition which as a human state is often dreaded by many. But the teachings of Christian Science place aloneness in the magnificent presence of God and His harmonious spiritual creation, in the radiant "reality of things." When we are alone "with the reality of things," we cannot be lonesome, for everything in God's real universe is tenderly loving and wonderfully lovable.

Even if to mortal sense our experience seems accompanied by fear and emptiness, always we are actually alone with our true being, God's perfect reflection. We are alone with the Love that infinitely surpasses our highest sense of earthly affection. We are alone with the fulfillment that has no struggle but gracefully rests upon all that God knows and cherishes.

We are separated from all that could make us unhappy, but we are eternally linked to spiritual perception, which sings in our hearts with pure joy. We are withdrawn from the sin and sensuousness of earthliness, hidden from the dreams of disease and death, and beyond the range of evil, hate, and every lie; but we are totally preserved in the matchless embrace of unerring Mind. We are separated from loneliness but companioned with all the glorious goodness that our infinitely good God gives. These soaring statements of truth would be as useless "as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal" ^{I Cor. 13:1;} if they could not be demonstrated. But Christian Science shows that that which is absolutely and eternally true can be demonstrated in daily experience proportionately as we actually let the truth inspire our thinking and dissolve the dreams of mortal sense.