Article April 25, 1953 Issue

LOVE IS ALWAYS THE WAY

RICHARD P. PALMER

That to love is always the way to overcome evil was clearly demonstrated by Christ Jesus and is being proved today by countless students of Christian Science. The love that overcomes evil is not the false, material sense of love often entertained by mankind, but the spiritual, scientific demonstration of love which expresses the spiritual understanding that God is Love.

In the epistle to the Hebrews (1:9) we read that Christ Jesus "loved righteousness, and hated iniquity," and the Gospels abound with incidents which indicate that Jesus completely understood and perfectly embodied divine Love. He was constantly expressing such spiritual discernment, affection, wisdom, and power that he quickly healed sickness, cast out sin, raised the dead, and lifted receptive individuals from false fears and indulgences to higher ideals and practices.

Because his expression of love had its foundation firmly established in Principle, God, nothing could make Christ Jesus stop loving. Neither the malice of the religious hierarchy, the betrayal by Judas, the desertion by some of his disciples, nor the injustice of his trial before Pilate could make him hate. He expressed a love beyond anything the world has ever known, and this true demonstration of love led him safely all the way through the crucifixion to his resurrection and ascension. He proved conclusively that to love is the perfect way to overcome evil, the only way to eternal life.

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