Editorial May 4, 1974 Issue

Love: The Most Excellent Way

Naomi Price

Year by year the world is coming to value love more highly. We see more compassion expressed for the poor, the handicapped, the mentally and physically sick, the young and the not so young, the victims of famine and earthquake, and for those who through false influences have committed crimes against individuals and society. Thousands now preach the gospel of loving one's neighbor without always realizing by whom this philosophy was originally developed and its practice most powerfully promoted.

The emerging concept of love as the supreme power in the universe and the answer to all human problems can be traced through the books of the Old Testament, and it comes to a climax in the New Testament in the teachings and practice of Christ Jesus. In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 5–7, we find the sublime synopsis of the Christian ethic that he taught. In this we can catch a glimpse of the depth and breadth of the love of God, and the purging of human thought that must take place in each of us before we can truly say it is being demonstrated that His will is being done "in earth, as it is in heaven."^{Matt. 6:10;}

When we realize the demand upon us is to love everyone generously, selflessly, and spiritually—to love even those who curse and persecute us, and to forgive those who do us wrong—the task may seem too formidable to undertake. But if the harmony of the kingdom of God is to be established on earth, the task must be undertaken and it can be fulfilled. God, the Father, who makes the demand, has graciously provided the means for fulfilling it by revealing to us the Science of Christ—the Comforter, which Jesus said would come to guide us into all truth.

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