Article March 27, 1978 Issue

True commemoration is demonstration

DORIS KING HILTON

A young woman sat by the hearthside late one night, watching the fading flames from a last log settle into embers. Her husband was overseas and was to be away for many months; their families lived in another city. Suggestions of loneliness, depression, and self-pity swirled in her thought like snowflakes.

Christian Scientists are taught to look away from material evidence of sickness and sorrow to the true, perfect concept of man as God created him. The young woman realized she should be turning wholeheartedly to God and to His knowledge of man instead of letting her thought dwell on the mortal self and its woes.

Endeavoring to gain a more comprehensive standpoint from which to pray, she found herself asking, "What's happening in the world right now?" Quickly the answer came: "In the Christian world many people are thinking about the crucifixion of Jesus and the suffering it implies, because it's the beginning of Lent."

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