Article May 29, 1965 Issue

The Power of Love

LOUISE K. GAINES

Probably in all the world there is no word whose meaning is more powerful than the word "love." In human experience love runs up and down the gamut of emotion from lofty desires to depths of sheer animality. This word, then, needs our most careful consideration.

Human life is full of accounts of love expressed which transcend the level of mere human emotion. A mother's love for her offspring, the love of animals for their young, the love of one who gives his life for a comrade on the battlefield —all these are glowing examples of the love which nourishes human life.

As the quality of love is purified and raised above the mere human aspect through an understanding of God as divine Love, the source of all real love, we find it to be powerful to a degree beyond belief. As love's power reaches out from one individual to a couple, to a family, to a city, to a nation, it will by its own momentum reach worldwide proportions. It is up to each one of us to do his part, and the sooner one assumes this responsibility, the nearer will be the day of world peace.

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