The lives of Jesus, our Master, and of Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, were filled with active love for God and man. The New Testament is replete with parables pointing to Jesus' loving and compassionate solution of the problems which came before him. When faced by the Pharisees with the query (Matt. 22 : 36), "Which is the great commandment in the law?" the Master responded, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Continuing, he said, "And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
Mrs. Eddy bases her teachings on those of the Master and the prophets. Her great love for mankind enabled her through her spiritual understanding of God as Love to heal all forms of disease, purify the sinner, and even raise the dead. May we follow in the footsteps of the Master and our Leader and through our understanding of divine Love demonstrate that disease, together with the so-called obstructive material belief claiming to cause it, can be dissolved. Through purification of heart and purpose we gain a clear concept of God as Love and of man as Love's reflection. Divine Love demonstrated in individual experience softens the unyielding heart and banishes the stubborn beliefs of mortal mind.
A well-loved hymn states (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 182),
