Article July 29, 1950 Issue

LOVE MEETS THE WORLD'S CHALLENGE

MIRIAM B. CLARK

Love is the answer to the world's challenge of sickness and discord because, as the Scriptures proclaim (I Cor. 13:8, Revised Version), "Love never faileth." What need can be greater today, in these seemingly troublous times, than the comfort that comes from the assurance which Christian Science brings that God, the ever-present and universal creator, is Love, the source of the love that never fails? Genuine love never fails because it comes from Principle, and Principle never fails because it is Love itself, all-powerful, irresistible Love. Love, the Principle of all that exists, is working out its purpose through divine law and order. In Love we find all that is needed to provide security, dependableness, and freedom from fear.

The problems of the world demand clear thinking, highest motives, and unselfed love for their solution. Jesus foresaw the upheaval that Truth, touching and permeating the world thought, would bring and told us that when these things should come to pass we must look up, that is, above persons and things to God. This Love that never fails is not personal, does not see man as material personality. It expresses itself as man, its reflection, its forever unfolding idea, the image and likeness of divine Mind—the man Jesus beheld.

The writer remembers the joy experienced when our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave us the message "Personal Contagion," now published in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," which says (p. 117): "'What went ye out for to see?' A person, or a Principle? Whichever it be, determines the right or the wrong of this following." The truths of this message produced fruits of healing. While contemplating its ideal, a student of Christian Science received a call to treat one who had been given up to die by doctors at a tuberculosis sanatorium. The question arose in thought, What went ye out for to see, a person, a patient given up to die with tuberculosis, or a Principle, divine Love, manifesting itself in harmony? The resolve was made to see only the real, despite whatever might be said by the patient or by relatives, or whatever the evidence of the senses might report.

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