Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-04-12

begetting timidity. Public opinion
should not be thoughtlessly or stupidity
defied. On the other hand, 1t should
neither be worshiped nor bhndly
obeyed. Public opinion is but the ag-
gregate sense of the enlightened masses
ON given question, person, or thing.
To the extent that such opinion has a
right basis and is made up OF accu-
rate deductions. which lead to true
conclusions, it should be deferred to as
guiding influence in human affairs.
But he who through fear of mistaken
public opinion does less than his
duty, proclaims half truths where
whole truths are needed, will be pun
ished with many stripes for dlsobedi-
ence to the heavenly vision.
| Moral timidity. another of fears
proteges, inculcates the erroneous idea
that tradition, custom, and usage, be-
cause hoary with age and supported
by the multitudes, should receive ODE
dent Difference from the individual.
Herein fear again comes to the front
and endeavors to keep man enslaved
to mere institutionalism, or conven-
| tionalism.
Fear of evil is the self-destructive
characteristic of mortal mind, yet evil
is the selfhood of this mind and logi-
cally analysed. it is afraiu of itself
And why should this not be so. is 1t not
the law of humiliation to itself? There
fore it fears itself as its own de-
stroyer.
The human mind, always ready for
new rights. is stampeded at the sight
of our numerous Modern synonyms for
the evil one which Jesus defined as
lie without any truth in It, and be-
cause the modern Technology is
couched in scientific phrases 1t begins
to yield itself to a new reign of terror
at the awful character of "the ghost"
or man of straw" that it is called upon
to oppose and overcome. This very
mind would laugh at the thought of
fearing evil under it's Biblical names,
while 1t cringes and crouches in trem-
bling fear before the apparent power
of this same old lie under its modern
Technology.
The Greatest Courage
One of the Srandest, bravest charac-
tiers in the history of the race is the
law-giver and moral reformer, Moses.
The moral standard, which is the for
ever afterglow of this IMAM of the
Law" stands as a sturdy bulWark of
the highest good of the race, and in
foundational way 1t made possible the
greater work of humanity's greatest
spiritual Leader and Regeneration, Jesus
Christ, who added to his superb moral
courage the richness of spiritual cour-
age and faith, making morality mental
as we'll as physical and leading thought
and life through spiritual interpreta-
ton of the Law and Prophets to the
celestial glory of ultimate sinlessness.
Moses and Jesus stand amidst the
eternal ways of mans progress as bea-
con lights of manhood's highest form
of fearlessness. Moses stands for moral
integrity, Jesus for spiritual law, and
both witness to the law of Spirit, the
triumph of true manhood over fear in
all its forms, In our own age we are
privileged in the degree of our WORTH
ness and spirituality to participate in
the wondrous triumphs of type of
moral-spiritual courage unique in the
annals of history.
When amidst our present observa-
lions of the worldwide growth of
Christian Science, its educational and
institutional extension, we pause and
go back in thought to the time when
Mrs. Eddy in the human loneliness of
her position as Discoverer and Founder
of Christian Science, stood on one life
platform, with virtually the whole
world on an opposite one, do we not
stand face to face with a remarka BILE
instance of woman's fearless courage?
At that time cannot we picture her as
saying:
Whose hath felt the Spirit of the Highest
Cannot confound. nor DOUBT Him, nor
deny;
Yea, with one voice. o world, though thou
deniest
Stand thou on one side for on this am /?
And so on through the years, by utter
ance, act, and example, this torch
bearer has borne witness to the Chris
tan Science religion of love. Courage
is assuredly needed in the defense of
truth, and it certainly takes a divine
fearlessness to uncover the myriad OPP
erations of the claim of evl-the origin
of all human fear. Therefore is there
not visible in the life work of our
Leaders history the grandest illustra
ton of womanhoods progressive vic
tory over fear?
Finally, thought turns away from the
contemplation of all that is fearful, or
that is associated in any way with the
element of fear, either in the abstract
or in the concrete, and with attention
fixed on the eternal type of humanity
divine character revealed through
Christ Jesus, we behold as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, and are changed
into the same image from glory unto
glory, even as by the spirit of the
Lord. The mind freed from fear, puri
fed chastened, and ennobled by the
strength gained in holy warfare,
mounts as on wings of eagles, partakes
of the primary glory of Man. and en-
ters into sonship with God. All types
finally merge into the Christ type, as
the seven primary colors make the per-
petual chastity of white. Jesus prayed
that all men should be one with the
Father. even as he was, and that all
should with him partake of the life
celestial. Therefore when fear pre-
sents itself to the man or to the woman
who would be an imitator of Christ,
when timidity projects into human
thought the fallacious arguments of
self-limitation, when apprehension
would doom the clear-eyed vision of
aspiration and spiritual longing, when
distrust of ones ability to fulfill the
law and enter into the possession of the
promises of Christ seems to eclipse
hope and limit courage, let the indi-
vidual rise in the conscious strength of
God-given dominion into the eternal
likeness of the all-Perfect. Let us re-
member that the Father of Jesus is
still our Father, and that as with the
virgin, our own pure sense, immaterial
and supersensuai, still "doth magnify
the Lord" Let us be fearless and I'M
firing in demonstrating that the pure
in heart are eternally blessed because
they see God In man and in the uni
verse, and are forever the fearless
children of the eternal Love.-The
Christian Science Journal.