Article August 22, 1959 Issue

MORE LOVE NEEDED

CLOTILDE M. CUNNINGHAM

In her "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy asks the question (p. 104), "How shall we reach our true selves?" Her reply is this: "Through Love. The Principle of Christian Science is Love, and its idea represents Love. This divine Principle and idea are demonstrated, in healing, to be God and the real man." It is therefore our paramount need constantly to express Love, God, the very Principle of man's being.

Christ Jesus gave as the two great commandments (Matt. 22: 37-40): "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

The God-given authority accredited to Jesus by his disciples and by those who heard him and who saw his mighty works was due to his magnanimous loving. His true bigness of thought and purpose stemmed wholly from God, divine Love. Mrs. Eddy writes of Jesus in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 54), "Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love."

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