Love is the most potent thing in the world, because it is the manifestation of divine Love, the Principle of all that exists in the infinitude of God and in the infinity of His creation. Divine Love is the center and circumference of the universe. Outside of Love there is nothing real or true. Love is the indestructible substance of true existence. The law of Love is the law of unceasing and unobstructed activity, the law of absolute harmony.
In one of his matchless letters to the Corinthians Paul gave to the world one of the most powerful pleas for love ever written, especially when the word "love" is substituted for the word "charity." He said (I Cor. 13:1, 2): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." This is the essence of Christian Science.
Correlative to this statement is the following pronouncement by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 113): "The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,— pulseless, cold, inanimate."
