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with his innate opposition to spiritual
itv, Those spiritually healed in
Christian Science have nothing to say
against Christ Jesus, nor against the
religion which he lived to establish.
Their one desire is to understand God
and to make their religion practical.
What happy world this will be when
everyone in it can prove the healing
S-power of divine Love!
GOD is LOVE
The story is told of a man, who,
when a small child, became separated
from his parents and was made to
believe that he had a most unkind
and cruel father, one who was always
severe, unloving, and unlovable; one
who was relentless and unforgiving,
showing neither mercy nor pity for
his own. The child listened to this
portrayal of his fathers character,
naturally made him very I'M
happy; and he grew into manhood,
actually believing it all to be true.
Finally, a traveller, who was well
acquainted with his father, found his
way to this man and told him what
was really true about his father. The
man soon saw that he had been la
boring under a wOeful misconception
81 his parent, who was now repre-
. scented to him as a most loving father,
full of goodness and compassion to-
ward his children, never angry nor
wrathful, but full of gentleness and
tenderness and kindness-just the op-
posite of what he had been taught to
believe.
Many of us have been educated to
---;JvIieve what is just as untrue con-
corning our heavenly Father; and not
until Christian Science entered into
our lives did we learn that God IS
Love, full Of goodness, mercy, and
compassion; that he sends no evil, sin,
disease, nor death upon man; that he
is never angry nor wrathful with His
children, but unutterably kind and
loving.
Who but a God of Love, a tender
and compassionate Father, could say
to us: "Come now, and let us reason
tOgether,-thOugh your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as
, snow; though they be red like GRIM
son, they shall be as wool" lisa. 1:18) ;
4 81 will seek that which was lost, and
Ing again that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was
broken, and will strengthen that
: which was sick" (Ezek. 34:16)?
Love, Truth, Life, Spirit, and Mind
!. are some Of the terms employed by
I. Mrs. Eddy to define Deity to human
consciousness. To one trained to be-
! lieve in a God of wrath and ven
1 geance, these synonyms for God, wher
+ studied in the light of Christian Sci
Z ence, reveal a new heaven and a new
4 earth.
: Humanity has the right to know
that Love demonstrated is not only
the greatest thing in the world, but
that it is the sum and substance Of
+ being. How can there be more thar
. ;. x ,ass-e1s2,yotent, omniscient, and omn
4 present Love and its infinite NANTES
tation? All other terms used to de-
fine Deity are but different names
for divine Love.
Christian Science reveals spiritua
man as inseparable from God. II
know, then, that God is Love, make
men fearless, unselfish, loving, kind
!, and compassionate. To know that Coz
is Truth, makes men truthful, trust
worthy, upright, and honorable. T
= know that God is Life, makes me-
Il more mentally awake, active, and use
full, and therefore, increases longev
/. ity. To know that God is Spirit, in
4 creases spirituality and leads though
s away from the body. To know tina
4 God is one infinite Mind, quicken
ones mental faculties Of perceptio
and comprehension, and enlarges one
capacity for right thinking.
Loves invitation, given to the worl
+. through Christ Jesus twenty centurie
= ago, "Come unto me, all We that Ia
- bour and are heavy laden, and I wi
give you rest" MAT. 11:28)' is re