When one dearly beloved has passed from our sight, there are perhaps few among us but have found our hearts echoing the longing so poignantly voiced by Tennvson,
. . . O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
At such moments of yearning, if we will but turn to God with our whole heart, we shall find Him immediately near, His arm encircling us and His tender love providing the spiritual comfort He promises in Isaiah (66:13), "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted." Through Christian Science we find that in order to rely wholly upon divine Love for comfort, we must turn resolutely from contemplating the false beliefs of separation, loneliness, and grief and must actively occupy our thinking with the powerful fact that God, the divine Principle of being, is the Life of all. We must acknowledge that individual man, then, lives and expresses God's being eternally.
