Article March 31, 1917 Issue

"Charity suffereth long, and is kind"

OTIS P. LE ROSS

Paul wrote to the Romans, "Owe no man anything, but to love one another." He clearly saw the lurking evil which would beset human existence in the temptation to owe anything and everything to another, except the love which in another epistle he so aptly calls charity. Honesty demands faithfulness to a trust or an obligation, and requires nothing less than that obligations must be fulfilled; but the law of Christ bids us love one another, and since divine Love is infinite it must of necessity be infinitely expressed. Just in proportion as one is striving to learn more of the divine law of Love and his relation to it, he is fulfilling his obligation, and consequently will lose the desire to owe his brother anything but love.

Love and charity are one and inseparable, and he who is charitable will be patient, for the same apostle tells us that "charity suffereth long, and is kind." Real charity reflected by us will greatly assist the brother who is weak in the faith in finding God. On page 270 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Meekness and charity have divine authority." True kindness is as far removed from the world's concept of kindness as the infinite is from the finite. The kindness of divine Love is compassionate and healing. It does not pity a man because of his false beliefs, thereby confirming the testimony of the material senses, but rather heals him of his wrong thinking and bids him "go in peace."

The true Christian Scientist seeks the guidance of divine Mind in what he says and does, and is thereby gaining a truer concept of kindness, which in the days when pity and kindness were thought to be one and the same had little place in his consciousness. It is absolute Christian Science that the humble seeker for truth desires, and in the beginning of one's experience he needs to learn what it means to depend upon God alone for wisdom and guidance.

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