Article November 17, 1934 Issue

The Science of Love

ALFRED HOLMEAD

Christian Science is frequently referred to as a religion of love. It is more than that. It is the Science of divine Love. Thus it proves, through demonstration, that God is Love. This point is important in both the study and the practice of Christian Science. Its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, saw clearly that Life is Love, and she instructed her students to "remember that the first and last lesson of Christian Science is love, perfect love" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 138). In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 256), she has given to the world what is at once the most scientific and the most humanly comforting concept of God since the days and works of Christ Jesus and the apostles: "Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man."

A concept of God as dwelling far off in a mysterious heaven, of the nature and location of which we have no knowledge, would be of but little practical or direct aid to mankind. However much one might wish to believe in His regard for us, and petition Him for release from human discord and fear of evil, the sense of mystery and the belief of separation would inevitably intrude a doubt as to whether the petition actually reaches God, and whether He really can do anything to help us here and now. The ineffectual prayer of such belief might even prompt one to conclude that God knows of human difficulties but intends that men shall suffer in them; that He not only permits but may even will sickness and distress for His people.

Christian Science reveals that God is not far away, but very near, indeed ever present; that He does not intend suffering for mankind, and knows nothing of it. And in the natural and logical unfoldment to each individual of the scientific fact that the divine Mind knows nothing of evil but knows only good, lies the way of salvation from all human belief in evil as real. Here and now, each one may come into a present knowledge of God and the recognition of man's relation to infinite Love.

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