Article February 4, 1956 Issue

HOW CLOSE AM I TO LOVE?

ADELAIDE ROTHENBERG

It is interesting and helpful to note the light in which Mary Baker Eddy viewed the word "Love." She says (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 249, 250): "What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the underived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the alone God, is Love." And she states of spiritual love: "Love is not something put upon a shelf, to be taken down on rare occasions with sugar-tongs and laid on a rose-leaf. I make strong demands on love, call for active witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand achievements as its results."

Here is the open secret of the sustaining and propelling power through which Mrs. Eddy was able to establish successfully, and in the face of great opposition, the Cause of Christian Science. And active love on the part of her followers will help to perpetuate this most holy of all causes. Mrs. Eddy followed implicitly the teachings of the Master. Christ Jesus said (John 14:23), "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." Christly love in action is God with us. How else can one dwell in Love and with Love? In the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, Paul makes it plain that Christian virtues without the charity that is love are nothing.

Christian Science gently leads thought Godward, toward the contemplation of the real and the lovely; it admonishes and purifies our thinking, freeing us from false traits and binding evils, which induce disease and discord. This Science compels surrender of false and unlovely concepts not only of ourselves but of others as well. The surrender of false concepts of our neighbor may not seem easy at times, but is imperative in order to prove one's at-one-ment with Love.

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