The Bible Speaks to You May 30, 1964 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the week of May 22-28 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to you." heard internationally over more than 850 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. 112 - Understanding the Other Fellow

INTERVIEWER: The importance of making a real effort to understand one another was brought out in the December 9, 1963. issue of U. S. News and World Report. The Editor. David Lawrence, said: "How can we begin to come to an understanding with those who are lined up on the other side of a controversy? Certainly not by calling names or by attributing reprehensible motives to people holding opposite views. For this can only widen the cleavage." Then he adds: "We have the God-given opportunity to love one another, which means to help one another. We can help one another by trying to understand one another."

With the deep differences of opinion and background among us, how can we find a real basis for understanding one another?

SPEAKER: We need to learn how to avail ourselves of the power of divine Love, which comes from God, and to let this spirit of Love govern our thoughts and our actions. It resolves itself into the question of learning what man really is. Christian Science holds that the material personality is not man. It is a misconception, or a mask, which tends to obscure man because man in his true being is spiritual, that is, he is the spiritual image of God. We need to see this in order that we may truly avail ourselves of the power which comes from God from Love. When we do this, we are in a position to obey the commandment of Christ Jesus (John 15:12), "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."

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