Article May 23, 1925 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Bliss Knapp, J. Donald Hinds, Herbert H. Norsworthy, W. Truman Green, Janet M. Armstrong

Boston, Massachusetts (The Mother Church).

Lecturer: Charles I. Ohrenstein. Introducer: Bliss Knapp.

I once had a most interesting opportunity to learn the significance of John's declaration, "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." I was asked informally to tell a small group of people something about Christian Science. Now, these people were not familiar with the teachings of Christianity; for they had been brought up to worship heathen gods, fashioned by the hand of man. When I spoke of the love referred to by John, they could not grasp the meaning of what I said. The apparent reason for their difficulty was that their sense of love was a material as their man-made gods. Love to them was a personal or emotional sense, instead of an impersonal or guiding Principle. Even when I appealed to their honesty from a sense of divine Principle, there was no mutual understanding; for their sense of honesty, like their man-made gods, was humanly circumscribed. It was the law of necessity,—that is to say, "honesty from policy."

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