Many, having tasted the comfort, the A joy, and the healing efficacy of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, have a deep and sincere desire to comfort others and help free them from the shackles which bind and imprison them. For these, Mary Baker Eddy has pointed the pathway clearly and surely. She states in the Christian Science textbook, (Isa. 40:1), "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
Whence springs this ageless desire to comfort others? There can be but one answer to this query: From true love for God and man, love which needs no person or persons to give it impulse as in the misnamed sentiment often called love, but love whose radiance, warmth, generosity, understanding, and forgiveness are shed on all alike, as the impartial sun shines on the wealthy and the pauper, the pure and the sinner, friend and foe. Those who have learned to understand and express true love in their everyday living are keenly aware of the world's need and yearning for comfort. Their desire is to obey the poet's admonition:
"Ask God to give thee skill
In comfort's art:
That thou may'st consecrated be
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy.
For heavy is the weight of ill
In every heart;
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch."
