Editorial May 16, 1925 Issue

Kindness

Duncan Sinclair

Nobody needs to be told the meaning of the word "kindness." Everybody has received of it from others; and surely everybody has expressed it to others. The meaning of kindness is as plain to the little child as to the adult man or woman; for it is as universal as love itself. If there be much in the world of men to-day to be deplored,—deeply deplored,—there is yet great cause for gratitude in the undoubted fact that everywhere, from the lowly cot to the princely mansion, there is to be found the Christly quality of kindness, revealing to all mankind the possibility of the kingdom of heaven at hand.

The Christian Scientist should be the kindest of persons. He has learned to know through Christian Science that God is Love and that man is the image or reflection of God. And thus he has discerned the truth that the real or spiritual man reflects Love. Mortals, however, are ignorant of the fact. They believe in the reality of evil as well as in the reality of good, with the result that they are to be found practicing evil,—aye, sometimes practicing evil in the name of good. Consequently, while kindness is found widely distributed among men, its presence too often is of a fitful nature. This should not be the case, for, since God is Love and the real man reflects divine Love, the endeavor of all should be to know the truth and to demonstrate it.

As the Christian Scientist should be the kindest of men, so also he should be the most honest of men. Indeed, in this respect as in every other that pertains to Christian life and conduct, his aim should be to follow the Master to the uttermost. And was ever any one so kind as he? Study the gospels of the New Testament, those gospels which contain the brief but wonderfully convincing record of his ministry, and they will be found to abound in deeds of kindness. From the time of his turning the water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, until his ascension, Christ Jesus went about continually demonstrating the fact that man is the reflection of Love, by acts of kindness,—healing the sick and sinful, feeding the multitudes, allaying fear, restoring the dead to sorrowing friends. More than any other one who has lived on earth Jesus demonstrated the Christ; and that demonstration was evidenced to all around him in the constancy of his kindness.

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