Article November 20, 1902 Issue

Love's Healing Presence

L. S. S.

All who know anything of Christian Science know that it teaches at all times that Love is the governing Power, the only Power, the only Government, the only Principle of man and the universe; and though it is omnipotent and omnipresent,—so great that the human mind cannot comprehend it, yet it is so simple also that even the little child can recognize and does recognize its healing presence.

A few days ago I was in a car, when a woman with several small children entered. One tiny creature, a little over a year old I should think, was very restless and irritable, and evidently very sleepy. Her eyes were heavy and she acted as if she would like to sleep. The mother tried in the customary ways to quiet the child, and in consequence she herself grew exceedingly irritable, and was very vigorous in the means employed. Of course the child resisted this and screamed and cried. There was a very sweet looking woman sitting in the seat back of this little group, and the tired child was at that moment, with its eyes full of tears, leaning on the mother's shoulder. The lady leaned forward with the most ineffable sense of love. It seemed as if the car was filled with it. All she did was to push back the hair from the eyes and forehead of this weary and sorely thoubled creature, and say tenderly, "What is the trouble, little one?" The child instantly stopped crying, and in half a minute the poor thing was sleeping peacefully. It brought a beautiful lesson to me of the gentleness, the strength, the omnipotence, and the simplicity of divine Love. Human love is the reflection of the Principle that Christian Science teaches.

In thinking this over there came to my memory another instance which occurred several years ago, and which at that time and to-day seems like an expression of the greatness of Love, as well as its simplicity. A woman came for help. She was a young woman, but as she came into the office she seemed to be bowed, almost decrepit; her face was lined, and she was suffering with sorrow and heaviness, as though there were nothing in the world but sickness. She asked for help, and when the treatment was given, it seemed as if the room were filled with the consciousness that Love would meet every human need, and that all we had to do was to know this fact. There was no argument used at all through the two weeks she came for help; but as she came in her need, this sunlight of Love came also, and the woman was healed through this sense of Love's presence alone. The afflication was a very serious one, but it was seen that Love can meet easily what to mortal sense is very dreadful, just as it can lend a Christ-like touch to one who is speaking to a child, and so dispel its small trouble.

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