In her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 158), "We live in an age of Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all." These words were written when the stark resistance of materiality was haunting the steps of the growing Christian Science movement, when the world was not many years distant from the brink of the First World War, when the rapidity of material invention and skill was breaking down time-honored barriers, when humanity was fast overthrowing the old and reaching out for a new social order, when the undercurrent of human thinking was one of unrest and dissatisfaction. Yet with clear vision this God-inspired prophet of the present era could proclaim the omnipotence of Love.
At this season when our country is preparing to celebrate the Thanksgiving Day inaugurated by the Pilgrim Fathers, when the crops are being reaped and the harvest is plenteous, it is well to ponder "Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all."
The allness of God is the allness of Love, and the allness of Love is the universality of Love. Love is confined to no boundaries, limited to no nation; its holy oneness knows no race, creed, or physical restriction. Love, the divine Principle of being, radiant in its own adventure to be All-in-all, tenderly, bountifully, impartially embraces all identity in the universality of its warmth. Within its own measurelessness Love reflects itself. Long centuries ago the Psalmist sang (Ps. 139:7–10): "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from the presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."
