Article March 21, 1942 Issue

"Love is the liberator"

DELLA M. WHITNEY

Most right-thinking individuals are seeking for something higher and better than that which they now have. The desire to progress and attain freedom and happiness is natural. A satisfying answer to such eager longing may be found within the inspired pages of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." On page 225 of this book, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Love is the liberator." Since Love is the source of liberation, our task is to strive to understand the law of Love and how it operates in the affairs of men.

The inquirer may ask how a greater understanding of the law of divine Love may be gained. The answer is, By prayer and consecration! Christ Jesus counseled, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." If we ask for greater spiritual understanding and expect to receive it, our gratitude should cause us to purify our mental home and make it ready to receive this divine gift.

A student of Christian Science once gained an enlightening and demonstrable unfoldment regarding Mrs. Eddy's words on page 494 of Science and Health, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." During her early years of study, she thought a great deal about this statement, and had a somewhat blind faith that under any adverse circumstance divine Love would somehow come to the rescue. But she did not take sufficiently into consideration the quality of her thinking and see that quite often failure in working out a problem was due to the fact that she was not expressing enough love in her daily contacts. Through prayerful study it was revealed that our duty is to open our innermost thinking to divine Love, admit it into our consciousness, and let it become operative there. It is not just admitting theoretically the fact that divine Love is ever present that meets a need, but it is the measure of divine Love which we understand, accept, and practice that supplies the human need.

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