Article September 2, 1916 Issue

Love Never Faileth

NETTYE NACHMAN

Animated by sacred thoughts and inspired with holy feelings, our revered Leader demonstrated the truth of St. Paul's saying, "Love never faileth" (Rev. Ver.). Through her absolute reliance on God as Love, and through her understanding of so infinite a theme, we, her followers, are enjoying health, happiness, and success in proportion to our acceptance of the truth and our realization of the nothingness of evil. We know there are no failures in divine Truth, and this Truth is all.

Then if aught manifests itself as a belief of failure, it is a wrong thought originating in self, since the real man, the only man, expresses or images forth perfection, for he is like God. God is Love, and Love never faileth; thus it follows that the real man, moving in accord with the Father and having no underived power, cannot fail. If a sense of failure comes in business, in health, in the home, or in any of our human experiences, we must first look within and eliminate that which would keep us from our heavenly harmony, which is here and now for us to enjoy.

Self-examination is absolutely essential, and this may remind us of Mrs. Eddy's admonition to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392). We must pray "with the spirit," and "with the understanding also," as St. Paul said to the Corinthians. Spiritual sense is the manifestation of Love, which is the fulfilling of the law, so that its opposite, hate, with its selfish, headlong ways, is the darkness which we get rid of as we let in the light of Truth when we pray with the spirit and the understanding also. In Science and Health (p. 505) we read that "understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal," so it is ours today to pray with the spirit and with the understanding. We have access to divine Principle to solve every problem, and this being true, failure has no place in Mind, no reality, and belief in it can be promptly, absolutely, and permanently dispelled by the law of ever-present Love, the Love that never faileth.

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