Article August 31, 1946 Issue

Love Ensures Freedom

CHARLES ROSSITER STUART

Another outstanding short sentence in Science and Health is (p. 454), "Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way." Yes, Love, God, leads the way to freedom from all that is baneful in the human sense of life. It reveals the Christ-way, the way Jesus taught in his Sermon on the Mount, as the only way.

The human sense of love, while often including much that is good and commendable, is not the love that makes us free. Only the pure love that emanates from God can be relied upon to bring us freedom, peace, and happiness. Christian Science teaches that man is the reflection of these qualities of perfect Love. Love, as God, is all-inclusive. It embraces all the virtues. Spiritual love enables one to be kind, patient, forgiving, unselfish, just, merciful, meek, courageous, honest, strong, and pure. Paul said (Rom.13:10), "Love is the fulfilling of the law." What law? All the statutes of God—the eternal laws of righteousness, which ensure freedom and abundance now and forever.

At one time I was greatly troubled by the very unloving attitude of two business associates. Under the circumstances it seemed very difficult to reflect Love toward these individuals. The situation became so serious that I contemplated resigning from the business. In other words, I wanted to run away from the problem. However, supported by the help of a practitioner, I worked from the premise of Mrs. Eddy's statement in the Christian Science textbook (Science and Health, pp. 476, 477), "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals," and earnestly endeavored to see these men in the light of divine Principle. This meant that I had to separate my thought of them from any sense of evil by steadfastly looking for and expecting only good from God's perfect ideas, which in reality these men were.

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