Chapter 12 - THE CROWN OF GLORY

To the Romans, Paul wrote the twelfth lesson of the Science of Christ: "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
Jesus Christ said at the Last Supper: "Henceforth I call you not servants but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you." His life was His doctrine. Having so regarded it, He said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Giving all His doctrine to His friends, He gave them His life. Seeing their heavy miseries, He descended into heavy miseries to show them how to ascend out of their miseries. A fireman goes into a burning building to bring out the people who are in danger, as a good physician goes into a plague hospital to cure the patients.
Jesus was so full to overflowing with love that the plagues and dangers of this world did not terrify him in the least. He was not hurt by a single one of the miseries He threw Himself into. Love is stronger than death. He that hath love bath freedom from every ill. He that hath abundance of love, wherewith God fills the whole universe, can save his friends from every ill. He is an atmosphere wherever he walks. Love diffuses itself with all its powers. Having love we have life, so we radiate life. Having love, we have strength, so we radiate strength. Pure love for a child will save the life of a child; so the life of all is saved if a man loves God, for God is all.
Jesus loved God. Thus He had all of life, all of love, all of truth, all of substance, all of intelligence, all of beauty, all