Editorial April 9, 1949 Issue

UNIVERSAL LOVE

Helen Wood Bauman

The knowledge that God is Love brings to light new aspects of the priceless quality of spiritual love and the understanding of its universality and oneness. Christian Science reveals God as one infinite Mind and every impulse of genuine good as springing from Him. This makes love an attribute of God rather than a virtue privately possessed and explains every manifestation of goodness as attesting the changeless presence of Mind and its indivisible expression. Mary Baker Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 165), "As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good."

Every kind thought, every unselfed act, evidences the same harmonious Principle that supports the forces which swing the constellations across the skies in ordered beauty. Nothing is too small, nothing too great, for Love's control and care. The Master spoke of the lily's fragile beauty, the sparrow's tiny life, the fragrant grass, as gaining Love's beneficence and stirred men to seek God's kingdom first, that His care might be evident in their own experience. Each idea is precious to God as an expression of Love's activity.

Divine Love makes man spiritually perfect, unites each individual with all others in one infinite, harmonious manifestation, and impels each one to express love that is selfless and impartial. Only through its ideas does Love release its energies of love. The good which becomes evident through individuals in so-called human life should be hailed as joyful proof that God is ever present and declaring Himself through His own beloved creation. How often one finds his human needs met and his problems solved through some undreamed-of expression of good in others. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 78): "Spirit blesses man, but man cannot 'tell whence it cometh.' By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science."

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