Article August 19, 1950 Issue

COMPASSION: LOVE IN ACTION

ESTHER M. MOORE

One of the qualities essential to successful healing in Christian Science is compassion. This beautiful quality, which characterizes the truly great in every age, has rightfully been defined as "love in action."

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, was of such a compassionate nature that a student of hers addressing an Annual Meeting was able to say of her, "Our hearts were thrilled by her compassion, and the memory lives with us" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 39).

Do we at times become so immersed in the letter of Science that we fail to discern its spirit? In other words, do we become so absorbed metaphysically that we forget the most essential part of our ministry—to regard our fellow men compassionately? Our Leader has this to say regarding our ministry in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 113): "The letter of Science plentifully reach eshumanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love." And she adds, "Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate."

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