Article April 5, 1941 Issue

Love Is the Way

EARL E. SIMMS

HEALING human discords through God's law of love is by no means an unusual occurrence in the experience of a student of Christian Science. The question arises. How does the student proceed to handle evil which claims to present itself through and as a person? Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 71): "Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense." Evil then—hatred, selfishness, revenge, unloveliness, covetousness, or jealousy—which seems to use a person, must be seen for what it is, namely, a false belief, a lie claiming to be the truth, an error falsely claiming identity.

Christian Science enables one to realize the truth about God and man, as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis, in which God made man in His image and likeness and gave him dominion. This realization that man is perfect, that he is the spiritual image and likeness of all-creating Love, God, Spirit, therefore never touched by evil or sin, but constantly reflecting Love in qualities such as kindness, gentleness, sweetness, purity, understanding, and forgiveness, enables one to separate evil from his concept of man. Thus handled, evil cannot claim identity as a person, but disappears before the understanding of the spiritual facts. Truly, this is applying the law of Love to human situations as Jesus applied it.

Jesus' whole ministry was one of overcoming the claims of evil through his understanding of Love. There is no other way to follow his example. He freed mankind from every form of evil which presented itself to him as sin. sickness, and death. This he did solely through spiritually mental means, through the glorious understanding of God as omnipresent and omnipotent good, and of man in His image and likeness, at one with Him and inseparable from Him. He knew the source of all error to be mortal mind, the liar, devil or evil; and thus he freed those who sought his help from the claims of the original culprit, mortal mind.

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