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Loving God Supremely
In the twenty-second chapter of Matthew's Gospel there is recorded Jesus' reply to the lawyer who tempted him. It reads: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
There is no limit, then, to the love which we should have for God. And in demanding this Jesus was asking of men only what he himself gave. For all who will study the Gospel records of his life must admit that among the many traits which distinguished that life, the outstanding one—the chief one, indeed—was his love for God. God was his Father. God cared for him and for all with infinite tenderness. All that he possessed of intelligence, wisdom, truth, love, life, good, was of God. Recognizing this, the Way-shower did not fail to love God supremely.
For the followers of the Master to love God supremely, they must know Him as Jesus knew Him. They must know Him as altogether perfect. By its clear teaching as to the divine nature, Christian Science is bringing home to mankind the wonderful truth that God is infinite Love, infinite good, and that, therefore, He is adorable. And in declaring the truth about the perfection of God, it is exposing and destroying the fallacies held by mortals about Him. Thus, Christian Science is nullifying the erroneous beliefs that God knows both good and evil, truth and error, life and death; that He tolerates evil, and even sends it upon men to punish them, perhaps as sickness or as catastrophic happenings such as earthquake, tornado, and pestilence.
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March 4, 1933 issue
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Accepting
ARCHIBALD CAREY
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"Isles of sweet refreshment"
MABEL CAMERON HARDCASTLE
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Guidance
FLORENCE B. HYLDAHL
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Mental Changes
ELMER C. SACKETT
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In the Mirror of Divine Science
LEROY G. STUMP
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Prayer and Its Answer One
MAUDE E. BEE
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Weighed and Not Found Wanting
FAITH HOLMES HYERS
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Unfoldment
GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK
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The report of a sermon, as printed in your issue of May...
Ray Birn Delvin, Committee on Publication for the Province of Quebec, Canada, in the
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I shall be much obliged if you will grant me space to...
John H. P. Berthon, Committee on Publication for Glamorganshire, Wales, in the
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While the reference to Christian Science in the article...
John M. Dean, Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee, in the
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In a recent issue of the Branch County News appeared a...
Miss Noreen McBride, Acting Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan, in the
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Song of Gratitude
ROSE SAFFRON
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Loving God Supremely
Duncan Sinclair
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The Might of Right Thinking
Violet Ker Seymer
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Letter to the Board of Directors
William Wallace Porter
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The Lectures
with contributions from Lucia C. Coulson, Ada Mary Scobell, Alta Herron
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At the age of nine I was fitted with glasses, and it...
Hubert F. Dickey with contributions from Estelle Willard Dickey
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I wish to tell of a healing I had nine years ago, through...
Mary Isaphene Ives Brooke
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"Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for...
James T. Fulton
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"Here I stand, I can do no otherwise; so help me God!...
Ruth-Edith Daum
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With grateful heart I join the great army of the redeemed...
Elizabeth A. Logan
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I heard of Christian Science in 1898 through a lady who...
Margaret Pollard Muncey
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For many years I suffered from curvature of the spine,...
John Alfred Holt
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Several years ago I was healed through Christian Science...
Ruth Marie Wilson
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Oil
ELLA A. STONE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William T. Manning, E. A. Burroughs, Edwin S. Lane, Bruce Brown, Waterhouse