Article December 7, 1929 Issue

Loving Alone is Living

EARL A. RUSSELL

Mankind is constantly seeking ways and means of extending and perpetuating life. Much of the time, however, it is using material methods, and so its efforts do not meet with the desired success. It uses material means because it believes that life is material, or physical, and organic. Were it true that life is material, it would be equally true that humanity could be helped by material means; but Christian Science shows the impossibility of a creation that is unlike and contrary to the one creator, Spirit, God.

Christian Science both explains and proves that there is in reality no matter, and that so-called matter's claims to power, life, truth, intelligence, and substance are myths, misconceptions of spiritual facts. Matter, so called, does not exist as a real entity. Consequently, it has no life to perpetuate or extend. The destruction of the belief that there is intelligent matter is not the destruction of life, but, instead, is proof of the fact that Life is God, indestructible and eternal; and this fact brings to light the true manifestation of life expressed in harmonious activity and progress. It further shows how spiritual man, as the image and likeness of God, is constantly, ceaselessly, reflecting God, pure immortal Life. In the degree that one understands this great spiritual fact and acts unselfishly, one is truly living by reflecting God, divine Love.

In his first epistle John has said that "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him;" and students of the Bible agree that this is true. Yet, through the belief in a material creation, mortals have presumed to believe that man, the offspring of creative Love, can express both fear and hate. Such a conclusion is obviously incorrect, for Love could not create hate, fear, nor yet anything to be feared; Spirit could not create matter; good could not produce evil; nor could Life cause or end in its opposite called death. Effect must be in harmony with its cause, as everyone knows. If God is Love, as John says, and God is Life, then Love is Life.

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