Article February 23, 1946 Issue

"Love's great legacy to mortals"

MARGARET J. SINCLAIR

It is a great joy to men when they first learn that man. God's likeness, is not mortal but immortal, and as such cannot inherit sickness disease, deformity, or any criminal instincts. Such beliefs are phases of the Adam-dream, and a dream is something from which one always awakens. In proportion as the sense dream vanishes, a mortal is lifted into the consciousness of true manhood in the realm of eternal Love.

If our heavenly Father does not send sin, sickness, or death, what does He bestow? The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has revealed to us one of His grandest gifts. She says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 124): "The last act of the tragedy on Calvary rent the veil of matter, and unveiled Love's great legacy to mortals; Love forgiving its enemies. This grand act crowned and still crowns Christianity: it manumits mortals: it translates love; it gives to suffering, inspiration; to patience, experience; to experience, hope; to hope, faith; to faith, understanding; and to understanding. Love triumphant!"

To forgive is not alone, as Webster puts it. "to give up resentment or claim to requital." In the light of Christian Science one may aver that it means to stop believing that man is a sinner or able to express discord in any way. These derogations may seem sadly true of certain mortals, but the real man is not mortal. He is immortal spiritual, perfect now, as God's reflection. In Christian Science we learn that forgiveness in its truest sense is the complete destruction of evil through spiritual understanding. One should never associate evil or disease with a person. When we look at mankind through the purified vision of Christian Science, imperfection disappears, and the beautiful, pure, and perfect are magnified. Thus we behold in some degree the real man, spiritual, complete, perfect.

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