Editorial July 6, 1929 Issue

"Unfaltering tenderness"

Duncan Sinclair

"The little that I have accomplished has all been done through love,—self-forgetful, patient, unfaltering tenderness" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 247). What a light the words just quoted throw on the mental attitude of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, towards mankind, in her efforts to bring the healing truth to them! Behind her every effort, inspiring and sustaining it to a successful issue, was "love,—self-forgetful, patient, unfaltering tenderness." And is not this what was to be expected of her who discerned that since God is infinite Love, infinite good, evil is unreal?

There is need that Christian Scientists remember Mrs. Eddy's words to-day, need that they inquire of themselves as to how closely they are following her in her Christianly scientific endeavors on behalf of humanity. For, let it be said, the progress of the Christian Science movement can be assured only by its membership following in her footsteps, even as she so wonderfully followed in the footsteps of Christ Jesus. She writes on page 8 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1902: "The spiritually minded are inspired with tenderness, Truth, and Love. The life of Christ Jesus, his words and his deeds, demonstrate Love." Then follow the significant words: "We have no evidence of being Christian Scientists except we possess this inspiration, and its power to heal and to save. The energy that saves sinners and heals the sick is divine: and Love is the Principle thereof."

Every Christian esteems the love of Jesus for humanity, knows how it drew the sorrowful to him for comfort, the sick for healing, the sinning that they might be cleansed, regenerated, saved. And every Christian Scientist knows that the love of Jesus owed its cleansing, comforting, healing power to the fact that it was the reflection of omnipotent divine Love. Of himself Jesus could do nothing. "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works," was the explanation he gave of his healing power. From first to last of his ministry, the Master's aim was to exemplify the love of God to men; and how wonderfully he accomplished his purpose is shown by the numerous healings he wrought through the spiritual understanding he possessed in such rich measure.

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