Article November 14, 1931 Issue

"Love one another"

ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN

To love God, good, with all our heart, and to reflect His love to our fellow men, should be our supreme desire. Without love for God and man our lives will be a hollow sham. Paul's beautiful words in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians show us that though we speak well, have great comprehension and effectual faith, but have not love, we accomplish little that is really worth while; and though we give freely of our money and time, without true love our giving and our efforts bear little or no real fruit.

When we really understand this, we shall see the falsity of ambition to be great in the sight of men, pride of position or power, the desire for praise, and the many other forms of self-love; and we shall rise above these errors in the earnest endeavor to make the expressing of humility, patience, forgiveness, unselfishness, and the reflecting of universal Love paramount in our lives. Then we shall render true service in our church, our business, our homes; and our efforts will avail much.

God, Love, is the divine Principle of being; so each endeavor to be loving helps to bring our human affairs under the government of divine Principle, the source of all harmony. We can demonstrate this healing Principle in the measure that we are loving. If we are having a hard time working out the problem of health, it is well earnestly to strive to express more love in every detail of our lives. As we express unselfed love, we become conscious of our true selfhood as the reflection of divine Love and Life; and thus we receive our healing. This is true in working out any problem, for our sense of harmony is in proportion to our demonstration of Love. The Master said he came that we might have life "more abundantly," and he taught that we should love God supremely and our neighbor as ourself. This abundant sense of life, with its joy and peace, can never be ours unless we have uppermost in our thought the endeavor to love God, good, with all our heart, and to reflect universal Love in our lives.

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