Article December 5, 1953 Issue

"THE GREAT NEED OF MANKIND"

HERBERT E. BONHAM

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 107): "More love is the great need of mankind. A pure affection, concentric, forgetting self, forgiving wrongs and forestalling them, should swell the lyre of human love."

It is apparent that the world today is sadly in need of this kind of love, the love which singles out neither friend nor foe, Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free; which recognizes only one creator, one creation, one governing power, to which each one of God's ideas is subject. In Malachi we read (2:10), "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" The universe of Mind is the only universe there is; and in this universe all of God's ideas dwell in perfect harmony.

Each student of Christian Science must assume his individual responsibility in realizing for himself and for the world the supremacy of God and the ever-availability of divine Love. War and strife will no longer appear when all recognize and prove that man is God's perfect child. Toward this end the endeavor of each individual should be directed. The Apostle John writes (I John 4:7,16): "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.... God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." We must separate error from individuals and nations by knowing that it is unreal and no part of God's creation.

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