Article September 10, 1955 Issue

THE INFINITE POWER OF DIVINE LOVE

LUCILLE P. SHIRLEY

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 412): "The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death." This is a clear and unequivocal statement of the all presence and the all-power of divine Love. The question often asked by humanity is, How may we avail ourselves of this infinite power?

Christian Science teaches that each must individually accept the scientific fact that "God is love," as the Apostle John states (I John 4:16). In the light of Christian Science we see that divine Love is the only power; that anything which is unlike Love cannot attach itself to man, the image of God. We recognize that man eternally abides in Love's infinite presence and is Love's perfect expression. Thus we deny and loosen the hold which disease, sin, and death seem to have upon us.

The Psalmist said (Ps. 103:2, 3), "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." The Psalmist did not say that God forgives some of our iniquities or heals some of our diseases. Rather did he state that God forgives and heals all, and he cautioned us not to forget God's benefits. God's work is never in an incompleted form. Can we, as Christian Scientists, do less than work for the full understanding of man's perfection as God's image, attributing all true power and love to God?

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