Editorial September 26, 1925 Issue

Tenderness

Duncan Sinclair

The name Father-Mother, which Mrs. Eddy gave to Deity, is most helpful in bringing to human consciousness the fact of God's tenderness towards His whole creation. Christ Jesus referred to God as the Father, thereby drawing attention to God's wisdom and protecting care; and our Leader, perceiving through inspiration that Deity contains within Himself the qualities of both Father and Mother, beheld God as the Father-Mother of all, and thus emphasized to mankind not only God's wisdom and protecting care, but also the tenderness which accompanies them. On page 332 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation."

The great truth, then, is that God loves His creation with infinite tenderness. A human mother may love her child with a great tenderness, but human mother-love at its highest is but as a drop of water to the ocean compared with the tenderness of the love of God; for God is infinite Love, and infinite Love must be infinitely tender. What a thought—the creator of all, the Father-Mother of the universe, actually loves His creation with a tenderness which is measureless! This means that man, individual man, is cared for, protected, governed by divine Love, absolutely perfectly.

Now the student of Christian Science is deeply grateful for the revelation of God's infinitely tender love which Christian Science has given him; but well he knows that as yet he but meagerly apprehends its meaning. For is it not true that often still he is in fear,—in fear of the unknown, in fear of disease, in fear of evil in some form or other, perhaps of pestilence, earthquake, hurricane, or fire? And if he be in fear of anything, does it not mean that he is failing to remember the infinitely tender nature of God's love? Were men clearly to realize that God's idea, man, is forever at-one with God, is forever at-one with divine Love, which is infinite, all fear would be destroyed, and they would be rendered immune from every form of disaster, and from every form of human suffering.

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