“Religion will then be of the heart and not of the head”

[JPalmer]

I am thankful to Mary Singleterry for writing about “warring no more over the corporeality.” In that same citation (11. 140 : 7-15), which has been staying with me all week, I felt the need to bring out the last two sentences as well:

“Religion will then be of the heart and not of the head.”

I am so grateful for being taught that Christian Science is about Love, not intellectualism. My practitioner worked with me a lot when I first came here to avoid being “intellectual,” which is not something I never thought of myself, but it is clear that error will do everything it can to make a shipwreck of our faith. (1) To be learning how to reflect God’s love for mankind, and to be able to separate error from person, is showing me that only disobedience to God would have me writing off any of His children as beyond help.

“Mankind will no longer be tyrannical and proscriptive from lack of love, — straining out gnats and swallowing camels.”

Proscriptive is defined as “dooming to death or exile.” It is so clear from all I have learned here that divine Love would never doom anyone to death or exile, nor would it make us do it. I am grateful to know that Christian Science is for all mankind, and all will come to feel the love that is in Christ’s Christianity, just as I have. Thank you!

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(1) Mrs. Eddy wrote on page 451 of Science and Health: “Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly awry.”

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