Article June 16, 1934 Issue

Gentleness

CHARLES V. WINN

Christian Science is a religion of love. It defines love, explains love, translates love, and demonstrates love. It operates through the law of Love, and when lived and demonstrated inevitably brings forth the fruits of Love. It not only enables one to attain more of good but ennobles and exalts whatever of good has been attained. It brings more of good into one's experience and gives one a finer, truer sense of that which he already has. It eliminates that which is wrong and replaces it with that which is right. It magnifies that which is good and minimizes, yea, destroys that which is evil.

The Scriptures iterate and reiterate the great fact that God is the only creator, cause, and origin of all that truly exists. They further declare that God is Love. Then the only universe there is, is the universe of Love. The universe is governed and sustained by infinite Love, and the only activity in that universe is the activity of love and good. The only laws operating in God's universe are gentle laws, beneficent laws, kindly laws, laws which insure the welfare of God's creation. His universe expresses His loving care and tenderness.

We read in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 514), "Tenderness accompanies all the might imparted by Spirit." How gently and quietly the violet comes up through the sod to give out its beauty and fragrance! How gently, on still days, the little waves lap the shore! How gently the bird sends forth its song of praise and gratitude! How gently the grass waves in the wind! How gently the silvery starlight is shed on the earth! How gently the bud unfolds, and so quietly that the flower is in its full beauty almost before one realizes it!

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