Mankind has no greater need to-day than to learn the nature and power of God. St. John, who had the wonderful privilege of learning of that marvelously wise exponent of Truth, Christ Jesus, what the Scriptures taught about man in the image and likeness of God, defined God as Love. John also knew the true meaning of love in its relation to humanity. His theme was always, "Love one another: for love is of God." His clear perception of spiritual truths lifted him to the summit of revelation, where he discerned that in the future there would appear to mankind another idea of Love, whose perspicacity would make manifest the Comforter which Jesus foresaw and foretold would come as soon as there was a readiness to receive it.
Down through the ages since that time, many thinkers have theorized and taught their highest conceptions of Deity, have lived godly lives and thereby enriched the world, but not until Mrs. Eddy's discovery of spiritual law and its application to humanity's urgent needs did scientific knowledge embody this promise and reach its fulfillment. A careful comparison of her teachings with those of the one who said, "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you," will disclose the oneness of their source. The statements made in the Christian Science textbook may be proved by any sincere seeker for surcease from the incessant turmoil which seems to be the heritage of those born of the flesh; hence it is demonstrable that Christian Science is the promised Comforter.
Christian Science accords with the Bible, insisting that God is the giver of all good, that the law of Love is supreme, ever operative, unchanging, and true; whose purpose is fixed, because it is the Principle of all that exists. Divine Love cannot depart from its own nature, or cease its beneficent activity in behalf of the spiritual universe, including man. It establishes itself in the hearts of the receptive ones who long for something more satisfying than the merely material concept of love. The mortal sense of love, embracing selfishness, fear, envy, jealousy, binds and enslaves its object. Its promised happiness ends in sorrow. Out of the crucifixion of the mortal sense of love comes the resurrection of a true understanding of divine Love, which is always accompanied by a demonstration of power and dominion, comforting and sustaining through the elimination or transformation of wrong conditions.
