Article May 3, 1941 Issue

"The healing of the nations"

DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE

POET and dramatist, patriot and philanthropist, author and artist, have presented, pictured, illustrated, and memorialized the ennobling effects of human love upon character and career. Men and women have laid down their lives for some great cause; and such sacrifices have succeeded in their exalting and exalted purpose in the exact measure that they have been inspired by a deep sincerity of purpose, a spiritual quality transcending human motives and revealing a noble or progressive aim for the betterment of the community, the nation, or the race.

The career of Jesus, whose brief public ministry has revealed to the sincere seeker the perfect method of solving every human problem, stands universally acknowledged by Christendom as the supreme contribution to spiritual history; but it is still widely regarded as too transcendental to be consistently emulated.

Writing in this connection, Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 26):"Jesus' teaching and practice of Truth involved such a sacrifice as makes us admit its Principle to be Love. This was the precious import of our Master's sinless career and of his demonstration of power over death." In these significant words does the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and the author of its great textbook lead thought towards the real meaning of Jesus' lifework and point to the nature of the love that animated him, a love so sublime and selfless that it swerved not before cruelty and seeming degradation, and thereafter rose triumphant above the hatred of implacable foes, seeking to destroy that which was indestructible.

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