Many centuries ago there was a man who had suffered many persecutions, many hardships, many vicissitudes, much unkind treatment. However, he did not allow these things to embitter him or cast him down, but used them as opportunities to lift him higher, to attain more of gracious magnanimity and true nobility. Out of the depths of his rich experience this man, the Apostle Paul, gave this holy admonition to his immediate followers and to the followers of good in all time to come (Eph. 4:32): "Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Here we have not only the injunction to be kind, but the basis of kindness, the method of its demonstration and fulfillment in our lives. One meaning of the adjective "kind" is "disposed to do good," and the primary meaning of the noun is "natural quality, character, state, or form of anything." The Bible tells us that "God is love" (I John 4:8); that He is the only creator; that He supports and maintains all that is good and true. And Christian Science likewise reveals the fact that God's creation is like Himself— lovely, perfect, right, and true. There is nothing unlovely, unrighteous, or wrong in that which He brings forth and sustains. This being true, it follows that the "natural quality, character, state" of reality is lovely, harmonious, healthy, holy, and good.
Christian Science, the Science of Christianity, accepts these great Scriptural facts unreservedly and demonstrates them. It proves that therein is the natural, rightful, and God-ordained order of being. The aim of the Christian Scientist is to think and act in accordance with these eternal verities, to "judge righteous judgment," to adhere to that which is true and not be deceived by false appearances, to cling to divine facts, to eschew all that is evil and wrong. Christian Science teaches us the nature of divine Love, the Principle of kindness, its unerring rule, and how it can be unfailingly proved and manifested in our human experience. In the degree that we understand this Principle, it can be scientifically demonstrated that there is a divine law which underlies its perfect expression.
