Article August 4, 1951 Issue

"THE QUALITY OF MERCY"

MARY SANDS LEE

IT is of striking significance to the Christian Science student that the chapter which deals chiefly with healing in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy begins with an outstanding example of mercy (p. 362), an example illustrating a fundamental fact of Christian Science, namely, that one expressing infinite Love would unfailingly include in this love all of which he is aware. Infinite Love would cease to be infinite if it had any impulse to exclude.

Indeed, this incident of Jesus' experience with the Magdalen at the house of Simon might easily have been the inspiration of Shakespeare's vision of mercy as expressed by Portia in "The Merchant of Venice":

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