Article November 13, 1948 Issue

LOVE'S PURPOSE

MARY VAN PELT VUCASSOVICH

Love's purpose is that we trustingly turn to God for guidance. Mary Baker Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 19), "Jesus said, 'Ask, and ye shall receive;' and if not immediately, continue to ask, and because of your often coming it shall be given unto you." Thus we have our Way-shower's word corroborated by our Leader's that every problem is solvable.

Can we conceive of a human problem being greater than infinite intelligence, or God? The Apostle Paul asks (Rom. 8:35, 37): "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." In other words, nothing can separate us from the only Love, wisdom, and power that actually exist. When we recognize this fact and earnestly pray to be shown the way, God will disclose to us all that we need to know. His Word does not return to Him void, but accomplishes for us what He wills.

There was a time when a student of Christian Science seemed sorely tried. She found that the tenants in one of her apartments were undesirable. She earnestly endeavored to apply the truth she had learned in Christian Science, namely, that evil, intemperance of any nature, could not disturb her house. She knew her true house to be the consciousness of good, harmony, purity.

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