Article August 15, 1925 Issue

Loving My Neighbor as Myself

MARY R. TOPHAM

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read (p. 205), "When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded." To know no other presence but good brings to light the activity of the law of Love, which blesses all mankind.

We learn in Christian Science that in order to worship God aright we must see His creation, man, aright. Jesus always admonished those who sought the way of eternal life to love God supremely and their neighbor as themselves. He never separated these two commands, because he knew that it is impossible to love God and to hate one's neighbor: neither did he expect his inquirers to love a sinful person, but to follow his example and heal the sinner through the reflection of the Mind of Christ.

These are the glad tidings Christian Science brings to us,—the understanding of what our neighbor is and how to love our neighbor as ourselves. It teaches us that the way to love him as ourselves is to see man as the expression of Mind, Spirit, and not as a sinful mortal.

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