Article March 22, 1952 Issue

LOVE INCLUDES ALL!

EMANUELA ALLAVENA

Christ Jesus told us plainly that to realize eternal life, we must know God. He also demanded that one should love one's neighbor as oneself.

John in his first epistle gives a perfect standard by which we can measure our knowledge of and love for God. He says very clearly that only he who loves his brother knows, loves, and abides in God. He states positively (I John 4:8), "He that loveth not knoweth not God;" and he also says (verse 20), "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar."

One may ask oneself: "Why does one's love for one's brother measure one's love for God? What is the connection between loving one's neighbor as oneself and knowing and loving God? What enables one to love one's neighbor as oneself?" Christian Science gives the answer to all these questions. It starts from the premise that God is infinite, all-inclusive Love and that man is His image and likeness. On page 331 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes of God, "He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence." From this it follows that God, infinite Mind, admits of nothing outside His allness and oneness.

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