Article September 11, 1902 Issue

Love's Purpose

BLISS KNAPP.

We all appreciate the ease with which we can perform some tasks that we love to do. The love of doing, not only takes the hard work all out of it, but it also makes it possible for us to realize a larger capacity for better work.

Jesus declared: "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light," nevertheless we all know that he undertook and accomplished more than any other man that ever lived. He concluded naturally that the only proper course to follow was to do right according to God's directing. But more, his love to do right and to be right increased so constantly, that it finally rose pre-eminent above all mortal limitations. His boundless love to do the Father's will made him equal to every task, for it brought to him the might of divine wisdom. So Love's purpose to-day is to lighten our burdens, that we may be good and do good naturally.

St. John defines God as Love, and Science and Health says that "Love is the liberator" (p. 225). Now we begin to awake, in Christian Science, to the wondrous truth that underlies these two statements; for, the more we love God and love, above all else, to do His will respecting us, even as a model child obeys his parents in the spirit of love, the better we shall understand Him. We understand best those human friends whom we love most; and the understanding of our true relation to God heals us.

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