IN the poem "Easter Morn," Mrs. Eddy offers solace to the discomforted in these words (Poems, pp. 30, 31):
While sacred song and loudest breath of praise
Echo amid the hymning spheres of light,—
With heaven's lyres and angel's loving lays,—
Send to the loyal struggler for the right,
Joy—not of time, nor yet by nature sown,
But the celestial seed dropped from Love's
throne.
Through poignant trial of her trust in God as she wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and established the Christian Science movement, Mrs. Eddy gained the conviction of the allness of God and the powerlessness and unreality of evil in all its forms. Alone, forsaken by family, ridiculed, she triumphed over each difficult human experience, clinging to her joy in giving to the world the truth which would heal its ills. Throughout her writings, one reads of the joy that was hers, the divine satisfaction, the gratitude and peace — all these the celestial seeds of divine Love that will take root in the thoughts of her followers and bring forth for them, as it did for her, the fruits of the Spirit.
