Article February 21, 1959 Issue

LOVE'S REDOLENCE

ISRAEL PICKENS

Who has not found it delightful, while walking through some beautiful garden, to have the soft breeze bring to him the fragrance of a rose or of a gardenia? To the lover of the evidences of God's handiwork, all the flowers of a garden are pleasing to the eye. But it is usual to give preference to the one which sends forth a fragrance which fills the air.

Mary Baker Eddy has pointed out in her writings that mankind can send forth spiritual fragrance, the fragrance of reflected spiritual qualities. In "Miscellaneous Writings," she tells us (p. 228), "To be a great man or woman, to have a name whose odor fills the world with its fragrance, is to bear with patience the buffetings of envy or malice—even while seeking to raise those barren natures to a capacity for a higher life."

We all can express the sweet amenities and influences of God, divine Love, by helping and blessing our fellow beings. When we reflect divine qualities to benefit others, our thoughts permeate the mental atmosphere about us with the fragrance of Love.

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