Article February 14, 1931 Issue

Universal Love

BLYTHE KYSON

Millions of women are asking the question, "What can I do with the many free hours I now have since the children have grown up and left home?" Years of unselfish service and devoted care must have called forth reserves of mother-love which, expanded and transformed into universal love, can answer the silent cry of many another heart. This expansion and transformation takes place as thought changes from a material and personal sense of life to the spiritual—when ministry is seen to be not so much ministering to a family's needs as, rather, the outward expression of an inward spiritual radiance which, like sunlight, warms and blesses all upon whom it may rest.

Mrs. Eddy, our Leader, whose love reached to the outermost rim of the world, once wrote in a letter to her friends of the Christian Science church in Concord, New Hampshire, after first speaking of the tender memories of her own childhood's Sundays (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 147, 148): "I shall be with you personally very seldom. I have a work to do that, in the words of our Master, 'ye know not of.' From the interior of Africa to the utmost parts of the earth, the sick and the heavenly homesick or hungry hearts are calling on me for help, and I am helping them. You have less need of me than have they, and you must not expect me further to do your pioneer work in this city."

One Christian Scientist better understood this outflowing love while reading the autobiography of a young lad who, alone, and practically without funds, took a soldier's government grant of a thousand acres of barren land in British East Africa, where, with heroic courage, he developed a farm and made a home. Her love went out to the brave boy, and she realized then that the infinite Mother-Love, which is God, was and is there and everywhere, comforting and protecting. In that moment she was released somewhat from the narrow human concept of mother-love, and gained the broader idea which The Mother Church manifests of "communion universal and divine" (ibid., p. 141).

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