Article October 12, 1946 Issue

Love Is Where the Need Is

ROBERT DOLLING WELLS

God is universal, ever-present good. Speaking of the Christ, the true idea of God, which he represented, Jesus said (Matt. 28: 20), "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." This is an assurance of peace and healing for the troubled heart, available wherever we are and under whatever circumstances we find ourselves. The ever-presence, the universality, of good contradicts all that would harm mankind or hinder its upward way.

Not so long ago my family and I were in a country where the language and food were strange to us. On the day before our scheduled trip out of the country by plane, I contracted what the natives call "tourist sickness," supposedly the result of the food we had had to eat. It was only after a sincere effort on my part to heal myself that I asked my wife to telephone a practitioner. But I did not receive the comfort and confidence I expected and found myself questioning whether he would be able to help me.

Then I began to see that God's healing power is not something which passes from one human mind to another, but is the truth of being coming to the human consciousness; that it is the Christ which heals, not the human personality. I knew that the Christ was expressed here in the love and compassion shown by the practitioner in his willingness to help me in the middle of the night, when I had my wife call him. Brotherly kindness is a sure sign of Christliness. With an acknowledgment of the presence of God and His healing power, and a giving up of the pride of opinion that somehow had made me believe that healing was a personal effort flowing from one person to another, I was healed, and shortly was able to eat a full meal on the rather bumpy air trip home.

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