The divinity of these words in St. John's gospel bring to man overwhelming tides of revelation, and the Spirit is a baptismal: "a new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another."
Jesus so loved the world that he gave his life for it [in the flesh], and yet Love had a new commandment even for him. What was it? It must have been a fresh tone on the ascending scale, a higher revelation of infinite Love such as time and eternity are ever sounding. If I could gather my dear students around me at this moment, and impart to them the higher sense I entertain of Love, although briefly and meagerly spoken, it would illustrate the divine energy that brings to human weakness might and majesty. Such Love turns away sense from the open sepulchres of sin, and looks into them no more as realities. It calls loudly for Soul to bury the dead out of sight, to forgive and forget whatever is unlike the risen form of Love and shut out all sense of it. To love our enemies better than our friends in that we labor for their resurrection into newness of life in Christ, Truth, more self-sacrificingly. To take them by the hand and lead them to Christ with loving looks and words. To cover with the mantle of charity each fault so that it is obliterated to our sense, and if seen by others serves only as admonition and works out the purposes of Love for all.
My students, full of noble purposes, are accomplishing much good that is seen and that is unseen, but have not yet, with the penetration of Soul, searched the secret chambers of sense. I never taught a student to handle evil who fully understood me or carried their instruction up to my ideal. It is safe not to teach prematurely the infant thought in Christian Science, just breathing new life and love, all the claims and modes of evil; better leave this righteous unfolding to the special care of divine wisdom, to the unerring moods and modes of instruction.
