Article December 5, 1903 Issue

Love Reflected in Right Thinking

C. W. CHADWICK.

How to love one's enemies has been one of humanity's most perplexing problems. Popular theology tells us that it is the proper and only thing to do, but fails to show us how it is to be done. Christian Science goes a step further and shows us how to love.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," p. 210, Mrs. Eddy says, "Love your enemies, or you will not lose them." While earnestly pondering these words the idea of Love reflected came to me as it never had before; and the longer I study and try to live Christian Science, the more I realize the great need of understanding how "infinite Love is reflected in love" (Science and Health, p. 17).

This idea of Love reflected solved for me the problem of how to love my enemies. It no longer meant that I was to love evil or an evil person, but to reflect the Love that destroys the sense of evil, and to abide in this Love wherein nothing that maketh or worketh a lie can enter. It meant that I was to let Love control and be expressed by me in thought, word, and deed,—the Love that "thinketh no evil."

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