Article December 20, 1913 Issue

Love

EMMA J. SHOECRAFT

Love is expressed in purity, enfolding and unfolding its own ideals. It is the fatherhood and motherhood of God, protecting the "beloved Son." It delivers from the terror by night and from the arrow by day. Love is the open fount to those athirst for Christ. It leads in the narrow way of "Thy will be done," which is yet broad enough for all. Love is reflected in humility bending low before the angel of His presence. It is the "pearl of great price," luminous with divine luster. Love gives inspiration, breathing "the music of the spheres," the hope that maketh not ashamed, and faith reliant upon God. It gives confidence and trust. Love inspires prayer within the "secret place," whose silent activity rolls away the stone from buried ideals and awakens holy aspirations. It gives constancy and patience, calmly watching and toiling midst storm and stress. It lights the torch that takes away Gethsemane's gloom and robs Calvary of its shame. Love supplies the manna that feeds the hungry heart, it is the power which multiplies the loaves and fishes today as it did two thousand years ago on the banks of Gennesaret. It ushers in the resurrection morn aglow with the risen Christ. It speaks through law, the understanding of which dethrones belief in other power.

Love furnishes the transparency through which is reflected our brother man. The redemptive motive always has been and ever will be Love. It was divine Love that whispered to the Virgin-mother the truth of being, and illumined the consciousness of Mary Magdalene. Love is light, revealing true fellowship with the Father and the brotherhood of man; the only substance, omnipresent and omnipotent. It is the great heart of God giving eternal life to all; the Word made flesh; God manifested through the healing Christ. The divinity of Christ Jesus was Love's reflection, that consciousness of man's eternal unity with the Father which touched, and ever will touch, the heart of waiting humanity. In Christian Science, Life, Truth, and Love are seen to constitute the tri-unity and harmony of being.

The Wayshower mounted every step in the ascending scale of being, whose tones have vibrated peace to a storm-tossed world down through the ages. To reflect Love is to "let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;" it is the debt of gratitude we owe to him who demonstrated the deathless Ego; moreover, to prove the healing and saving power of Love is the tribute due the loving sacrifice of our Leader.

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