Article October 31, 1959 Issue

LOVE'S INFINITE MEASURE

ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW

TRUE value is not to be found in numbers. The good of an idea or an enterprise determines its worth, and this worth cannot be reckoned numerically. Yet one of the inherent tendencies of the human mind is its inclination to count. It thinks and calculates in terms of matter and mortal persons; hence it is concerned with matter's scarcity or overabundance, its shortages or surpluses.

Christian Science, on the other hand, introduces one to the realm of God, divine Truth. Here God, good, is the one power, infinite in scope, infinite in manifestation. God and His abundance are omnipotently omnipresent at every point. Man as the reflection of God has all good now, and this good is as unfettered by matter as are numbers and notes.

In the light of this Science, we see that abundance is a condition of man's existence and not something which he must add to himself. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read (p. 68), "Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion."

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