Article September 20, 1900 Issue

The Reflection of Love

BY W. M.

The meek Nazarene demonstrated the law of Love. The proof of the Truth he revealed lies in the work he accomplished. His existence was the living embodiment of Love. His teaching was practical and susceptible of proof, as seen by his achievements. A continual contemplation of his words, the pathos of his life, the injustice he received, and the persecution he suffered, results frequently in ecstatic emotion, sometimes mistaken for spirituality, but far removed from it. Becoming rapt in adoration of the man Jesus, losing sight of the Christ-Truth he reflected, does not solve the problem of Being, nor enable one to do the works he did. The Truth he proclaimed was the revelation of God with us as the divine Principle of existence,—all-inclusive, all-embracing,—the kingdom of heaven at hand, available to all who choose to enter therein.

These were the glad tidings his life attested, and he promised that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled; those who seek shall find; and those who strive shall attain. Expecting to benefit by another's life and works, effort and sacrifice, will end in disappointment and despair. Sooner or later each must realize his own responsibility if he would gain the fulfilment of the glorious promises of our great Master. What could be more sublime than their fulfilment? Worldly success, place, and power, pale into insignificance, for such are but the transitory vaporings of worldliness, compared with the substantial realities of spirituality.

Consider Jesus' life and works; his power; his healing; his purity, meekness, and gentleness; his calm amid the seething discord of error; his uniform sweetness and light; his tender compassion, kindness, and love. All the turmoil of mortal mind could not ruffle his tranquillity. Cruel indignities and insults provoked no retaliation. Ingratitude and persecution beat relentlessly upon him, yet "opened he not his mouth." All the forces of this world could not prevail against the power of divine Love. He stood, and still stands, as the highest earthly representative of divine Love, demonstrating the inseparable unity of God and man, as Principle and idea, and forever establishing the superiority and might of Truth over all error.

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