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Love
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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December 20, 1913 issue
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It would be impossible within a limited space to do more...
Lawrence Beesley
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Spirit's Characterization
IRVING C. TOMLINSON, M.A.
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Overcoming Evil
REV. JAMES J. ROME
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Love
EMMA J. SHOECRAFT
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Systematic Study
ELIZABETH HIGMAN
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An Exaggerated Perspective
VERNE E. TAYLOR
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Appreciation and Participation
J. S. BLAKE
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Gratitude
MARGARET MORRISON
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A recent critic, who signs himself "A Student of History,"...
Frederick Dixon
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The gentleman of the medical fraternity who attacked...
Ezra W. Palmer
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As quoted in a recent issue, the Rev. J. M. Darnell describes...
George Shaw Cook
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Truth's Vestal Dawn
CASSIUS M. LOOMIS
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"Yesterday, and today, and forever"
Archibald McLellan
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Christmas Lessons
Annie M. Knott
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Atonement
John B. Willis
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The Lectures
with contributions from L. A. Wilson, Harrison A. Smith, Frederick B. Shepard, Mrs. M. E. Van Duze, Professor Olin, Carrie Stoughton
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I owe so much to Christian Science that I feel it a duty to...
Frances Schlatter with contributions from Julia Parker
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I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Charles Cheesewright with contributions from C. V. Cheesewright, B. J. Amsberger
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Christian Science was brought to our notice over three...
Grace Littlewood
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I first heard an intelligent explanation of Christian Science...
Mary F. Gregory
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Before Science and Health came to me, my faith in the...
Theda H. Williams
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For a long time I have felt that I must express my debt...
Rose Anna Hubbard
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Tonight
JULIA WARNER MICHAEL
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from M. A. Lichliter, R. A. Dunlap, James S. Kittell