Article May 2, 1903 Issue

The True Impulse

Edward C. Butler

Mexican Herald

Love for God and love for man should be the mainspring of every effort in Christian Science practice, for "perfect love casteth out fear." If we fear, we are on a level with the sick and cannot be the instruments for their healing. The love of God is a tideless, shoreless sea. No human beliefs can create any disturbance in its harmonious action; no human sense of inaction, over-action, or reaction can delay or limit the operations of divine Love. God knows nothing of fear or doubt, of disease or death, and He knows all; therefore these are human beliefs, and must pass away. The love of God is shoreless, for He is omnipresent for good; no distances can separate Him from His creations, no lapse of time create imaginary spaces between God and man, for God has no sense of space or time. All these are artificial conditions in what we call mortal mind, a negative state of human thought, for the moment estranged from God. It is the realization of the Truth of Being that enables the Christian Science practitioner to heal the sick, through God. He helps to bear his brother's burden, well knowing that God will bear both the burden and the burden-bearer out of beliefs. There are no tempests, no wrecks on this wondrous ocean of God's love. Jesus demonstrated that fact, as we read in St. Matthew, 14 : 22-38. That very day Peter had witnessed the power of the Master in feeding five thousand men, besides women and children, with five loaves and two fishes; and yet when the darkness and the storm smote the lake, he was afraid, and said: "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." That little word "if" revealed his weakness, and Jesus had to help him. He outgrew that weakness, and we can also outgrow it. There are no shallows on the ocean of God's love. It never disappoints us. We can rest our all on its waters. It is deep enough to float every aspiration of the human heart, wide enough to enter into the minutiæ of our daily lives and supply every human need.

Edward C. Butler.
In Mexican Herald.

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