Article August 6, 1927 Issue

Omnipotence of Love

MARY B. HENDRICKSON

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 249, 250) Mrs. Eddy says of Love: "What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the underived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the alone God, is Love." If our wise Leader, inspired with divine Love, was led to express in humility and reverence her great need of a better understanding of Love, what should be the attitude of her followers along this line?

A wise writer has said, "Know what you have to do and do it." Surely our true business is to know what God ordained man to do, and do it. Each individual student of Christian Science knows that the fulfillment of his earthly experience has not been more than touched unless he has gained some understanding of the true sense of Love, or God. If we are not doing this in some degree, we are allowing the mesmerism of cold indifference, apathy, and procrastination to rob us of the heart and soul of true living, since a loveless Christian Scientist is an impossibility, for as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 113), "The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love."

In Proverbs we are told that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." We therefore see that living is a mental process. We also see the importance of righteous thinking, and the great necessity of doing our own thinking. One of the first revelations which come to the student of Christian Science is the power of scientific right thinking; and as this thinking is based on divine Principle, Love, it is his only protection.

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