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just heard of the teaching of Christian
opportunities, as old as the Galilean hills
Science regarding what is called death.
among which Christ Jesus walked and
Had that beautiful activity ceased? Was it
taught--he finds that there is in it not only
not still identified with life, and strength,
healing for the sick and reformation for the
and vigor, and all that it possessed when
sinner, but comfort for the sorrowing. He
it passed from her view? Had anything
sees that although his sea gull may not turn
stopped? She suddenly sat up in her chair
back in its onward flight, its going has lost
and gazed in almost startled interest at the
its sting, and the words of Isaiah are once
blue far horizon, as into her consciousness
more marvelously fulfilled 61:1-3), "He
there flowed an indescribable peace, the
hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
first she had known in many weary months.
to appoint unto them that mourn in
For she saw the truth of what her friend
Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes,
had been telling her and realized as never
the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
before that what had happened in her ex-
praise for the spirit of heaviness."
perience was just like the passing of the
As one casts aside the cold mantle of
sea gull beyond her range of vision : it was
sorrow in which he has enwrapped himself,
still going on and on, even though her
and steps out into the warm sunshine of
limited, human sense of sight could no
Truth, he finds that his experience has
longer follow it.
made his loved one not less dear to him,
If I could see only a little farther, she
but, rather, more dear, because he has
thought. And that is exactly what Chris-
learned something of that universal divine
tian Science enables us to do-to see a
love which does not confine itself to those
little farther, or, in other words, to discern
who first love us, but holds all humanity
more clearly something of the great realities
in its embrace. He no longer cries out in
of being hidden to mortal sense. As one
the dark for "the touch of a vanished
gains a greater understanding of Truth, as
hand," but reaches out his own to comfort
given in the Christian Science textbook,
and bless those others along life's highway
"Science and Health with Key to the
whose path for the moment is dark, too,
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, he finds
and to tell them of the peace which is for
that his spiritual vision becomes enlarged
all of God's children, the peace which the
as he grows each day into a better under-
world can never give or take away. Thus
standing of God and of man's relationship
he proves the truth of what is written on
to Him. As he continues to study and
page 57 of Science and Health: "The
ponder this simple, practical, new-old re-
wintry blasts of earth may uproot the
ligion-new as each morning with its fresh
flowers of affection, and scatter them to
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