Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-04-12
VICTORY OVER FEAR
IS GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
Worlds Torture Chamber Is Dread OF Disease
Which Human Nature, Through Erroneous
Belief and Lack of Moral Courage,
Commits Itself


, fails to master the deep philosophy of
the Pauline utterance, know We not,
that to whom We yield yourselves serV-
: ants to obey, his servants ye are 10
whom We obey" Throughout the ages
the realm of religious belief about God
man. heaven, hell, suffering and indi-
vidual salvation, has been more invaded
and ruled by the monster fear than any
i other department of human thought.
Past and present religious thought re-
Iates largely to mans future. Wherever
the unknown or future tense enters IN,
! there fear will always be found on the
spot, ready to give lurid description
of that which is liable to happen III
! has been truly said that 1.-THE fear OF Ill
exceeds the iii we fear" and it is true
statement which reads, death is the
fear of death"
Argue as we may, analyze as we
may, search and penetrate as we may
into the farthest domains of the enc
my's country-thought comes back TO
the original proposition that the bellef
i'm error is error, as the sense of sin
is sin.
Fearless Ones Are Brave and Tender
Victory over fear. is not won in
moment. We are fearless and splr-
| itually courageous in the ratio that we
are developed in the understanding VI
Love, Spirit, God, our Father Mother
Fear has been analysed for what 1t is
and what it does; not to cast reflection
upon those holy souls who are nobly
and bravely fighting the good fight OF
| faith and overcoming with surety ana
certainty this common enemy The
fearless nature is neither brusque nor
harsh, but honest, tender and brave
Moral courage is moral because II mas
the fearlessness of morality, and Is the
| tn6 mir
standing of the first great command
ment. Thou shalt have no other gods
before me-" Therefore moral courage
in its higher sense is spiritual courage
and is truly the lion of the tribe OF
Judah" Men possessed with a single
idea, not at all commendable or eX-
allied in itself, often face disease, ca
tastrophe and death with visible fear
lessness, but these forms of courage
do not triumph in the great inner bat
ties of life, or bring the individual to
! the realm of divine and immortal Sow
ereignty The most sensitive and spir-
itually enriched natures often tell us
that their lives are beset with many
fears and their mental processes regis
ter many hours of silent conflict with
self-distrust and timidity. They also
tell us that these conflicts steadily lead
| to places of peace, repoSe, mental
quietude, and bodily health, where
! Gods children can rest from their la
bors and enjoy the blessedness of do
minion, and plenitude here and now.
| AS Good, divine Love, and Truth, the
synonyms of God, dwell forever, self
conscious and harmonious, so man, the
! image and likeness Of perfect Being
| is forever conscious of harmony, do
minion, and Immortality Eternal Life
is progressive Life, and the man of Us,
! even now and here, has dominion over
sin, sickness, and death-oVer fear and
it's myriad subdivisions The con-
seriousness Of the allness of divine
Love as the infinite guide, healer, sus-
tainer, and ruler of mans destiny be-
gets faith, which leads men to believe
| all the promises of the Most High, be-
cause so many of them have already
been fulfilled in demonstration.
In no one way does fear show itself
in a more pernicious garb than in its
seeming power to perpetuate pain and
disease. Physicians admit that the
most hideous diseases are engendered
by fear and the seVerest form of sick
ness is prolonged by its presence
Therefore love and faith as mental
conditions are of especial healing
value. Where fear is. love is not
Where there is real love, there can be
no fear We never really love those
whom we fear, and the nature that Is
fearful has not yet tasted the bliss of
true love, from which the fear element
is forever absent.
Many temperaments are kept in
| bondage to organized and personal
domination because their fears are
constantly played upon by the particu-
lar dOgmas OF the institution by which
they are enslaved, or by the threats
arguments, and methods of some con-
trolling mind. Slavery to duty is often
| q form of fetish worship an attenu-
ated expression of fear. The broad,
! hopeful, generous, pure-minded and
! unselfish nature easily blends with the
! love order Of the universe, and, con-
scious of it's own individual sovereign
! ty, makes of life one progressive song
of triumph and Well-doing. Fear is the
habitual mood of tyrants, and those
who most control others by playing
upon their fears are the greatest serfs
to fears despotic sway. 1t is a true
saying that "the fear of the unknown
and the unlived future exceeds the fear
of the known, even the fear of the pos
sible repetition of past sufferngs."
Therefore there is an infnitude of
value in the utterance of Jesus, "Suf-
hcient unto the day is the evil thereof.
If children are guided, restrained, and
educated through the sweet, patient
activities of love, with proper
recognition of the child's individual
rights oil sell government WHe0 Olu
enough to enter into their possession
this is the Scientific method But chill
dren made to obey through fear of
punishment are in constant terror of
their parents, and are made haters of
the law of right rather than lovers of
it,. Is it unnatural that with the first
privileges of individuality a mental
reaction against enforced obedience
takes place? This reaction is inevita-
Bile, and parents and guardians have
themselves to thank for their grave
disappointments in connection with
those whom they have labored to edu-
cate in the right way. Even animals
respond to the sweet influence of low
ing patience, and resent severity and
government through fear. The natural
and normal love of the Good and pure
expresses our recognition of the nature
of infinite Principle, which is thus re-
fected more and more perfectly in us;
whereas an enforced adherence to
righteousness represents an abnormal
condition which inevitably leads to re-
PROGRESSION and collapse.
The jealousy that is born of fear is
durable through the understanding of
that divine Love which is at once just
and logical. An understanding of the
law of relationship between individuals
is in itself a positive cure for what can
be called jealous fear, and the love that
prefers another's good above it's own
is at all times a destroyer Of every kind
of jealousy, so truly defined by Shakes |
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