Article May 19, 1934 Issue

Love Never Fails

GUY R. HOUGHTELIN

An expressive and searching statement is found on page 365 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mrs. Eddy writes, "If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit." In these words our Leader sounds a bugle call to the Christian Scientist to let his consciousness be habitually so filled with the Christ-spirit that when called to aid one who is seeking help he will be able to discern the child of God only; to see as real no evidence of sickness, sin, or discord, but to see clearly the spiritual, the true man. This clear view of man as God's own child, maintained, eradicates every opposing thought, and destroys inharmonious evidences.

Christian Science healing is founded on the law of Love; and there is no higher law than this, for it is the law of God. Christ Jesus identified this law of Love with "the first and great commandment," when, in answering a lawyer who had questioned him, he said: "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." Paul, also referring to it, declares that "love is the fulfilling of the law." Can there be any law greater than this law of love? No matter to what state or condition it may be applied, this law is able to meet every need.

In all of its many and varied phases, Love is and will forever remain the one great and unfailing power. Mother-love tenderly nurturing a child has always been looked upon as the highest type of self-sacrificing human love, and no one would belittle it, for it is indeed an approach to the heart of divine Love. The love of a human father connotes protecting and providing, showing a loving care for the child, making the path less rough for his tender feet, and strengthening him for the time when he shall take his place in the world. Yet we learn that God's love far exceeds that of human parents, for the love of the heavenly Father never fails, but again and again draws prodigals into the fold of His love. Realizing this great love of the heavenly Father, the Psalmist wrote, "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up."

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