When news came to Paul that the little Christian church which he had founded in Galatia was wavering in its faith and loyalty, he wrote to it the stirring epistle called "Galatians" in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. This epistle, though written some nineteen centuries ago, is quite as valuable to us today as it was to those pioneer Christians of the first century.
"O foolish Galatians," Paul wrote (3: 1), "who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?" In the fifth chapter he encouraged them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free, and not to be "entangled again with the yoke of bondage." He listed some of the elements of bondage, such as hate, wrath, and envy. "But the fruit of the Spirit," he declared, "is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." He assured them, "All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
This was no new teaching, this exhortation of Paul's. Moses had taught it. Christ Jesus had admonished his followers to love one another. John, the beloved disciple, had taught it. In this age Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has taught it.
