Article December 11, 1915 Issue

More Love

INEZ KOCH

Often the cry rises from our hearts, "How shall I love more, — how shall I manifest the Love which is God?" This is a desire which comes especially to the student of Christian Science as he begins to grasp the importance of the great commandment of our Master: "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."

The human sense of love, with its doubts and fears and many fluctuations, is so inadequate to fulfil this demand that thought naturally turned to seek a higher meaning. In John's gospel we find Jesus saying to his disciples, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." It has been generally considered that this meant deeds of heroism in which one man lost his life for another. Although this may be the highest human concept of self-sacrifice, it is not so in Christian Science. It means something wholly joyous, something so beautiful that all sense of giving up is entirely forgotten in the realization of an unutterable love, such as only the knowledge of absolute Truth can give.

To understand the text in its more spiritual signification, it is necessary to study what Jesus meant by life. He taught that God is Life. Therefore it cannot be the Life which is God that we are to give up, but a false sense of life. What Christian Science means by a false sense of life is a material sense, for did not God, Spirit, make all that was made? What authority, then, has matter to claim for itself life? Is it not what Mrs. Eddy calls mortal mind which claims intelligence and life in that which has neither origin nor cause to support it?

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