God , divine Principle, is unchanging, everlasting, infinite Love, the source of all that is beautiful and harmonious and good, and to reflect this Love is the divine way out of our human problems. We can find our true selves and the true meaning of our lives only as we express God-bestowed, tender, and compassionate love; as we manifest the Christlike love which Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount; as we live love in more useful, helpful ways, made glorious through the unfoldment of divine Love. Lack of love is the only lack there is, whether it manifests itself as lack of health, supply, companionship, or activity. Mary Baker Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 312), "Oh, may the love that is talked, be felt! and so lived, that when weighed in the scale of God we be not found wanting." Such love is strong, courageous, and steadfast, quick to rebuke evil in thought and unsee it as person, place, or thing.

Jesus' love embodied all the qualities of true love. Spiritually discerning, tender and wise, absolute and scientific, he proved in beautiful and practical ways to all who came to him the meaning of divine Love in his healing words and works. To the hungry he gave bread and sustenance; to Mary and Martha, loving consideration and friendly solicitude; to his mother, the tenderness and thoughtfulness of a loving son. The lame, the deaf, the blind, the multitude he healed, for he loved universally and gave without measure out of the divine tenderness of his heart. When we learn to love as Jesus did, we shall never judge, correct, or rebuke except to heal, for we shall seek the kindest and best way to help, the loving way that Christian Science teaches.

One of the first steps in learning how to love is taken through humility; for when we are humble, we are ready to listen to Love's message, are willing to wait and learn from divine Mind. The truly humble do not seek to do our way or believe that their way is a better one, but they let God's way unfold and prevail. There is no human will, no striving for place or power, in the humble, loving heart. With humility based on divine Love, the true Christian Scientist is seeking how best to serve God and promote the brotherhood of man. Jesus surrendered his will to the divine and followed the dictates of Love. In that dark hour before the crucifixion, his petition was, "Not my will, but thine, be done," and this self-effacement strengthened him in his demonstration and enabled him to walk with Love all along the way, even up to Calvary and upon the cross, thus proving through the resurrection and the ascension his oneness with the Father in eternal life and love.

Where divine Love is, there is healing in the field of Christian Science. When Christian Scientists are filled with Christlike love, then their churches will be filled and the healing work will be in evidence. The demonstration of unfailing Love in the Christian Science churches enables its members to go out into the highways and the byways of the world and bring joy and health, light and healing, to others, for the Church is the cradle of spiritual aspiration and unfoldment, unfolding ceaseless opportunity to express unity, peace, and brotherly love. It is the bulwark of Love, and in the sanctuary of its Christlike influence, hate, envy, jealousy, accusation, human opinion, sentimentality, personality, human will, and human egotism are being overcome.

In Love's presence, all things are beautiful and good. Rivalry, jealousy, mistrust, gossip, self-righteousness, pride, all the unlovely beliefs of mortal mind, have no reality in the infinite consciousness and fade into nothingness when thought is illumined by divine Love. Although the rivalry and jealousy and malice of the brothers of Joseph put him into the pit, the reflection of divine Love in his thinking lifted him out; and because of his compassionate, constant, and patient love for God and man, he was able to forgive, and thus go on to a higher and more universal sense of relationship, a greater and finer and more unselfed manifestation of work, a wiser and fuller expression of abundance. When our love for God outweighs all worldly love, we can begin to look up and find redemption and the glorious achievement of the life that is love, as Joseph did. To unselfed love, personality is not exalted, nor are enemies hated, feared, or despised. Only as the Christ-ideal is lifted up in each individual consciousness will it be lifted up for the world. Then will fear disappear in the Christlike courage that is aflame with divine Love; pain will cease in the presence of pure being, which is altogether lovely; sorrow will become joy in the recognition and understanding of limitless Love and the infinite bestowal of Life, of God's pure friendliness, and of the companionship of beautiful ideas.

The ever-present, irresistible Christ, with onward sweep, is overturning the evil in human thinking, revealing the radiant heaven of universal love within and without. The so-called forces of evil cannot withstand the eternal might of infinite Love and its infinite manifestation. As the searchlight of Truth's understanding prayer of the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God encircles the earth with its pure light, the dark night of paganism will disappear into its native nothingness. Underneath the sheltering wings of this pure Science, humanity is finding protection, comfort, and strength, for in the dark trenches of human fear, Love raises its standard and cries, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," the end of all error, strife, and hate. When the world witnesses Christian Scientists living this love, the weary, heart-sick peoples of the earth will turn to it for help, because they will have caught something of its reflected glory. Learning how to love is the way. Mrs. Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 247),"The little that I have accomplished has all been done through love,—self-forgetful, patient, unfaltering tenderness." And millions who have been healed in Christian Science can thank God for her unselfed, consecrated effort in giving the revelation of this pure, demonstrable Science of healing to all mankind. She was constantly listening to the voice of the Christ, counting not the cost of persecution and malice, but tenderly, patiently waiting for the divine fulfillment of Truth to blossom in each human heart, until the unity and oneness of all mankind might be established, and all learn to practice Christlike, understanding love for God and each other, just as Jesus did, centuries ago.