Article March 11, 1939 Issue

"More expansive love"

LOUIS SEABER

UNDOUBTEDLY, the chief desire of many in the multitudes which thronged Jesus was to be rid of besetting physical ailments and afflictions. Few grasped the wider extent of his spiritual teaching. Likewise, when Christian Science was "something new" in the popular sense, it was viewed mainly as a curative agency in cases of sickness and disease. It is still so regarded by many whose particular desire is for physical wholeness, and by others who are but scantily informed as to its broader aims and purposes.

The primary value of Christian Science is in the healing of sin. This Science is a workable, scientific religion, applicable to all the needs of mankind, physical, economic, spiritual; it is not merely a pleasing theory or abstract philosophy. It reveals the standpoint from which human interests may be dealt with intelligently for good, the standpoint from which the so-called problems of existence may be worked out according to divine Principle and its rules. Its benefits include health, harmony, security, prosperity, justice, peace, and happier living.

By word and parable Jesus stressed the broader phases of true being. He revealed the universality of good, the potency of Truth. He forecast the end of all evil and said, "I have overcome the world." In his famous Sermon on the Mount, the Master set forth the pattern for all righteous human relations. He declared that his mission was to show men how to live. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," he proclaimed. Again, he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Healing sickness and forgiving sins were but graphic illustrations of applied spiritual power.

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