Article August 14, 1978 Issue

From grief to perception of eternal Life

HAZEL WILLOUGHBY HARRISON

The comfort of the Christ does more than soothe sorrow. It heals it. It lifts human thought above mourning to the calm assurance of the glory and eternality of being.

This tender office of the ever-present Christ is depicted by Isaiah in these words: "The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me ... to comfort all that . mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."^{Isa. 61:1–3;}

Christian Science teaches that the Christ is Truth, the glad message that is ever flowing forth from divine Love to human consciousness. The Christ reveals to us that God is infinite, self-existent Spirit, or Life, and that God and man are coexistent and coeternal. It shows us that man is the expression of the divine Ego; that his identity as the son of God is spiritual and established for all eternity. Man forever reflects the harmony, perfection, and glory of his divine source and has no life or ego separate from his creator. Being the manifestation of eternal Life, man is deathless.

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