Article October 5, 1981 ISSUE

God's Mother-love can heal the world

ELVEY WILLIAM ALFRED BARTON

Mother love is the quality of thought that cares for, looks after, tends, and protects the object of its affection. The center of God's affection is His beloved child, made in His likeness. The Mother-love of God is the life of man. This life is eternal and uninterruptible. Man has all the love God gives, and God gives all the love man has. Mrs. Eddy observes, "As Elias presented the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested, so the Revelator completed this figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea of God's motherhood." Science and Health, p. 562.

The hungering heart needs the nutriment of love as parched land needs rain. The garden of thought must be watered so that it may blossom and bear the fruit of compassion for all mankind.

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