The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-12-31

rons of the sound of the terrible
engines whirring in the darkness
overhead, and of hearing the bombs
explode all around; boys sleeping
fearfully in the trenches, waiting
for the summons in the gray morn
ing to go over the top, and men and
women sleeping in towns and viii
lagos, miles and thousands of miles
away, fearful of what in that very
moment may be happening to those
whom they love; men and women
at sea, waiting, as it were, for the
explosion of torpedoes; or even
men and women in immediate ply
steal safety, wondering what effect
the war is going to have on their
incomes and their lives. A great
fear has stricken the world, and it
is little wonder if out of this fear
there have emerged pestilences and
diseases which have mounted on the
winds of fear and scattered their
seeds in every direction.
In such circumstances what would
it be expected that Christian COM
munity should do? Would it not,
remembering the words of the Bible
that perfect love casteth out fear"
be to ask itself if there were not
something amiss with its under
standing of love which makes love
powerless to overcome fear? And
should it not naturally fling wide
open the doors of its churches, con-
fident that in doing right, by wor-
shipping God, no ill could touch it?
Have Christian countries so COM
pletely come to distrust the doc
Psalm is no longer protection
against fear and against disease,
against pestilence and against war:
"He that dwelleth in the secret place
Of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty
There shall be no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh
thy dwelling" Yet, at the very
moment when the churches should
be filling the minds of the people
with peace, and reassuring them of
the impotency of evil, it is pro-
posed that these churches shall be
shut, and that the admission shall
be made that it is dangerous for
men and women to congregate to
worship God, for fear the Lords
arm is so shortened that He cannot
contend with microbes. On the other
hand, if people believe that God
sends pestilence into the world, for
the good of the world, what right
have they to protect themselves
against this pestilence, and to at
| tempt by the drinking of drugs, by
methods of segregation, or by any
means at all, to prevent the anger
of the Lord from taking effect?
The very fact that all men and
women endeavor to protect them
selves against disease, at all times,
! is the proof, to any sane person,
that in it's heart the world does
not believe that discord proceeds
from Principle, that death comes out
of Life, or that reprisals are the
work of Love. ...- "a.
''The way" writes Mrs Eddy, in
famous sentence on page 201 of
Science of Health, ''to extract error
from mortal mind is to pour in
truth through flood-tides of Love-"
Now not even the natural scientist
will deny hat the way to overcome
any condition at all is to learn the
truth about it. Until the truth has
been learned man fights with his
hands tied behind him, or, at the
best, like the boxer in the Greek
games, who, Paul declared, beat the
air. The Christian religion is per-
fectly clear on this point. Jesus
of Nazareth Himself declared, eff
the truth will not free men from
microbes it will not free them from
anything at all. Now, it is perfectly
certain that if the truth about