Article August 20, 1966 Issue

"Yet shall he live"

DOUGLAS ROBERTS

The human mind, grieved and confused by a friend's passing, asks: "Where has he gone? What is he doing? Shall we meet again?" Christian Science answers these questions with absolute assurance and heals the grief. It declares that the one who has passed from our sight is not dead but is actually continuing to live as before, though in a new belief; that he does not sleep or become inactive in his labors of love. This Science also declares that we shall meet again those who have gone before when we arrive upon their "plane of conscious existence," since here and hereafter are but different states of mortal belief.

Mrs. Eddy writes, "If you or I should appear to die, we should not be dead."^{ Science and Health, p. 164;} While Christ Jesus declared, "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."^{ John 11:25, 26;} Then he inquired of Martha, "Believest thou this?"

Material sense does not believe this. It judges only by appearance. Christian Science, however, corroborates these statements, proclaiming that a friend, though he pass from our sight, "yet shall he live." It proclaims that the Christian Scientist who believes that he dies awakens from this momentary belief to a better sense of health, happiness, and wisdom. This Science reveals the fact that he has but passed from one dream to another dream in the process of awakening out of all dreaming.

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