Power Of Divine

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 8

Power Of Divine

“Really to love is a great accomplishment, far beyond what we have been accustomed to believe," a Christian Science lecturer said in Christchurch yesterday. He was Mr James Watt, of Washington D.C., Who has ■been invited here ’by First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Worcester street. “It requires a nobility of character which emanates from divine Love itself,” Mr Watt said. “It plumbs the very depths of one’s thoughts.

“In the world’s current extremity, it is vitally important that we replace human conjecture with a more exacting kind of love that can only come from God.

“Divine love is the only real power. All is lost if we are not learning to love. “Mankiiid in general has an innate recognition of a superior force in life. Most of us are aware, each in his

own way, that there exists a power that is supreme, allknowing, and beyond any human concept of power. “Our greatest asset is our power to think. Nothing can deter the honest thinker from the use of his intelligence and the ulnfoldment of his own inherent unity with God.”

Mr Watt said that there were certain qualities of thought that had characterised those noble thinkers of the world whose influence flor good had comforted and enlighted and transformed others.

“Indigenous to every one of them has been a truly great

simplicity, honesty, and a selfless love,” said Mr Watt. “The greatest of all these thinkers was Jesus of Nazareth whose thinking constituted such an exact and complete understanding of God that he overcame the laws of time, space, and matter and performed what are called miracles.

“Jesus recognised God as the only power, the only presence, the infinite Mind, or divine love. In this way he taught what it means to love