Article May 29, 1976 Issue

Sorrow Can Be Healed-Quickly

CORA SLAUGHTER

The long-distance call had been a great shock. I put the receiver down and quietly reached for Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. It held, I knew, the healing antidote for the news that my brother had suddenly died. These were the words I opened to: "Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. Life is without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity." Science and Health, p. 468;

This spiritual reassurance continued in the firm declaration of a Christian Science practitioner whose prayerful support I asked for: "Don't concede for one moment that your brother was ever born into matter. What is true of him is actually true of God. His identity is eternal in God."

Of course! Man is not a mortal. The concept of a human personality so long familiar had to be replaced with the spiritual truth of man as never beginning or ending, the divine idea living in divine Principle, wholly permanent in God.

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