Article February 26, 1921 Issue

"Let love be without dissimulation"

DORIS A. CHISHOLM

Through the study of the Bible we learn, among other things, that God is Love. Notwithstanding the fact that He is accredited by many persons with sending floods, fires, wars, earthquakes, disease, or pestilence, we know, from the light which Christian Science throws upon the Scriptures, that God is unchanging, ever present Love, who is "of purer eyes than to behold evil." There is great joy, peace, and harmony in knowing just the one infinite Mind, which constantly sustains man. In this understanding there can be no sin, sorrow, disease, or death.

Paul gives the true analysis of love in his letter to the people of Corinth, as found in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. Summing up, he says, "But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love" (Revised Version). Henry Drummond says in his book, "The Greatest Thing in the World": "You will give yourselves to many things, give yourself first to Love. Hold things in their proportion. Hold things in their proportion. Let at least the first great object of our lives be to achieve the character defended in these words [faith, hope, love] the character—and it is the character of Christ—which is built round Love."

Thought must be kept so high above the sordid, unreal things, which God knows not, and which man, as His reflection, cannot know, that there can be nothing but good manifested for all. We are continually confronted with the testimony of the material senses, but that testimony is not the truth of being, and never was, and never will be. Man does live and move as the divine action, and there is nothing which can impede true progress. Trials and temptations, which endeavor to assert themselves, only serve to teach us not to lean on any material sense of things, but to trust, with calm assurance, and know that "with God all things are possible."

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