Article March 10, 1945 Issue

"One lowly offering"

MURIEL WHITE

What is it that lifts a system of religion to deserved fame?" asks our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. And she answers her own question (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 258): "Nothing is worthy the name of religion save one lowly offering—love."

It may seem strange at first that our Leader should have used the word "lowly" to describe that which constitutes the greatest of all, attainments in religion. But the Christian Scientist learns in his struggles with the false sense of self and the world that only in the deepest humility and meekness, yea, in the most unspeakable reverence for God and His Christ, can love be found. This humility is not self-depreciative; but it is a firm acknowledgment of the all-power and all-presence of God, who is Love. Such an acknowledgment results in consistent action with this knowledge.

"God is love," is a profoundly scientific statement, for it bases all true thought and action and demonstrates eternal Life. Another equally important statement made by John is commented on by Mrs. Eddy. She says, "'Love one another' (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer" (Science and Health, p. 572). To "love one another" is to fear no man, and to know as real only the man of God's creating, the man made lovely by Love, holy, harmless, and indestructible.

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