Editorial October 13, 1951 Issue

CONFORMITY TO LOVE'S LAW

Richard J. Davis

In her textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and rounder of Christian Science, writes (p. 113): "The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate." Christian Science brings to mankind the revelation that Love is the divine Principle of the universe; that God, the cause and creator of all being is love—universal, all-inclusive, and omnipotent. Love is the acme of all being.

Love in Christian Science does not imply mere kindness, but requires and demands it. Love does not imply just affection, but requires it. Love does not mean merely a kindly interest in our fellow man, but certainly requires it. Love is greater than all the qualities that humanly indicate it, for Love is the basic fact of all being.

Someone perhaps may reasonably question: "How do we know that God is Love? What do we mean by Love, and can we conceive of Principle as Love?" When John declared that God is Love, he was certainly not expressing a mere metaphysical abstraction, nor was he forming a concept of Deity based on sentiment or emotion. Even from a human standpoint, as we view the universe—the wonders of earth and sky—we are obliged to concede a certain evidence of harmonious law and order. Main years ago Alexander Pope, in his "Essay on Man," said that "order is Heav'n's first law." The Psalmist too, beholding the glories of heaven—the moon and the stars—was consciously aware that the entire universe, including man, was under the law of divine Principle, Love.

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