How good light is! Can we ever know the extent of blessing following the divine word, "Let there be light." Responsive to the creative mandate "there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good."
Light dawns for the thinker and true day awakens, when he comes to know what God is; for by this enlightenment he understands that God is good. John, the metaphysician, in showing the true ideal for man, said: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." He based this teaching upon Principle, by explaining, "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
The opposite of love is designated hate. A traveler depicted a scene which he witnessed. Before a vast audience stood a man, himself ill with the fever of hatred, and for an hour and a half he labored to infect every listener with his own malady. His eyes glittered and his limbs trembled as he poured forth in malign words the false beliefs of his fevered imagination. Is it not strange that men will accept the wandering thoughts of delirium for a philosophy? Do they really believe, as is asserted, that hate is the great actual power in the world, and that men must either hate or fear, without alternative? Christian Science takes issue with this view and brings light upon the human question by showing how man is deceived and how he may be delivered.
