Article February 8, 1941 Issue

Perhaps nothing can do so much to alleviate the discords...

From Letters, Substantially as Published

Floyd C. Shank,

Burlingame Advance

Perhaps nothing can do so much to alleviate the discords of the world of today as obedience to the commandment to love one another. Lack of love usually denotes lack of understanding. Many times one who has hated another has learned to love that one when he has learned to know him. The Golden Rule, found in the Sermon on the Mount, is the very essence of Jesus' command to love one another.

Christian Science churches, accepting the master Christian as their example, instruct men to love as Jesus loved. The Christian Science church accepts in full the Master's teachings. Its adherents strive to obey them in their daily living, in their homes, in their businesses, in their social contacts. As individuals thus develop the ability to practice the Golden Rule, to love instead of hate, and to take a more unselfish view of life, they become better citizens, better relatives, better Christians. To the degree that the church can help to accomplish these results in a community, to that degree has it contributed to the solution of world problems.

Christian Science accepts St. John's definition of God as Love. From this premise it is deduced that man, God's image, is loving. Any material evidence that man is unloving or hateful is therefore not according to spiritual fact and is not to be accepted as divinely true. Thus is revealed the naturalness of one's ability to express love. Jesus proved this in his own experience. He proved that since God is Love and God is omnipotent, Love is omnipotent. Thus it is related in the Gospel of Matthew that "Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick."

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