Everyone
with the well-being of his fellow-men at heart has experienced disappointment when his efforts, or the fruits of his efforts, on their behalf have appeared to be delayed or thwarted.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
draws a clear line of distinction between unselfed love, as the reflection of divine Love, replete with healing power, and the merely human unselfishness which holds itself at the beck and call of individuals, some of whom may be unreasonably exacting.
No one, surely, can be in doubt as to the meaning of Christ Jesus' words recorded in John's Gospel, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Isaiah
prophesied regarding Christ Jesus that he would come "to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.