MAN'S rightful attitude towards his fellow-man has remained an unsolved problem in all human history. Selfishness, harder than adamant and more pitiless, blocks every entrance to human hearts, and only the "solvent of Love" can remove it and liberate mortals. Jesus gave this solution to mankind, and in his wondrous life demonstrated the supremacy of Love over all selfishness,— malice, envy, revenge. He neither gave wrong for wrong, nor hate for hate. He realized that Love is the life of all, including his foes, and that loving is therefore the necessity of living. His two great commandments of supreme love for God— Good— and selfless love for the neighbor, are the only true solution for the problems between man and man. This was later emphasized by John in the following passage from his First Epistle: "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen," in which we learn that only by our love for our brother can we measure our love for God.
Infinite Love is no respecter of persons; does not respect personal evidence, but sustains forever the unchangeable beauty and completeness of God's image, unfallen man. The divine effulgence of that Light in which is no darkness at all waits to dispel the mist that arises from mortals' material sense,— that false sense which would displace God's fact of harmony with a lie of discord. Do we ever forget, in the joy of our own deliverance, that we are daily surrounded by those whose sense of life is as dark and wretched as ours ever was before the light of the Science of God —Christian Science —shone upon us? Are we loving the brothers whom we see thus? Are we quite sure that the opportunities which Love bestows are not neglected in our care of self? In the measure of our gratitude for redemption from disease, and for the priceless privilege of knowing Christian Science, we will rise above selfish considerations, so that the light which Truth has kindled in our hearts may shine brightly for those still "in the deep darkness of belief," who have not yet heard God's sweet message to man in that wonderful text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy.
Our debt to divine Love is very great. Money could never pay it. Observance of forms, the unction of words, the letter of deeds, count for nothing; only loving can discharge it, and we must begin where we are by loving our brothers as we now see them. When Moses reached a higher plane, where he attained a demonstrable knowledge of God, he devoted his life to the liberation of his brethren from their wrongful bondage. Are not our own brethren in the flesh bearing as heavy burdens under as hard taskmasters as the Hebrews of old in Egypt? Ignorance of God, fear, false education, false laws, have laid grievous burdens upon them,—disease and sorrow, sin and want and death. These are the brothers who demand our love.
