The Bible Speaks to You November 7, 1964 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the week of October 30–November 5 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You," heard internationally over more than 900 stations. This is one of the weekly programs prepared and produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 135 - The Search for Love

HOST: One basic need links all mankind, whether rich or poor, child or adult. That is the need for love. The important question is, Where can we find the love that is needed?

INTERVIEWER: Our host's opening comments bring to mind something Gordon W. Allport says in his book "The Nature of Prejudice." He points out that very few of our contacts with others satisfy our deepest need for belonging. He asks why it is that loyalties and loves are so few and restricted when actually, as he says, "human beings feel that they can never love or be loved enough." (© 1954, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts.) As a Christian Scientist, what do you feel is the answer to that question?

SPEAKER: I think the answer to that question lies in understanding what the source of love is. Much that passes for love in our experience today really is not love. It is sometimes only possessiveness or sensual indulgence or just a passing fancy or infatuation. And the result is we are looking for the source of love in a wrong place, trying to find it in a person or in people.

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