Article July 20, 1946 Issue

No Problems in "Love's divine adventure"

W. NORMAN COOPER

Mary Baker Eddy knew that she had discovered the absolute Science of the master Christian's words and works. And it was her great love for humanity that inspired her desire to express the truths of this Science so exactly and winningly that they might be accepted and used to meet all human needs.

The student of Christian Science who reads his Leader's writings without giving special attention to her use of words misses much of their beauty and practicality. For instance, Mrs. Eddy uses the word "adventure" but once in her published works, yet the consideration of this word, as she uses it, can lead the student to exalting vistas of spiritual unfoldment. Her simple, positive statement is to be found on page 158 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany." There she writes, "We live in an age of Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all." The worldly sense of adventure may include a human fear of failure. But to Mrs. Eddy's clear insight the allness of divine Love excluded any possibility of failure. Each of Love's individual expressions exists spiritually, reflecting the allness of Love, which is God, the source of all true adventure, and entirely separate from any human experience.

Love's adventure includes joyfulness, activity, and assurance of successful fulfillment. Man, the perfect expression of Love, must reflect these qualities. Hence man is joyous, active, and inspired. He never regrets the past, dreads the future, or dwells upon the possibility of failure. Such divisions of time are unknown to him. Man, as revealed in Christian Science, is assured of the reality of good, joyous in the knowledge of God's allness, and aware only of fulfillment.

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