Milford chronicle., 1940-05-17
Security Is from God


human demand for security except a
reaching out for what can be found
only 10 the degree that God is found ?
Is there anything secure but God
What is it that Outlasts all false
opinions of man? What is it that re-
mains when human sense has fed
Mans security is In God, the divine
intelligence he expresses. He is
anchored In spiritual wisdom which,
untouched by human will. reveals his
daily footsteps.
Good Cannot be ThWarted
Is there anything to prevent the
spiritual demand OF our times from
hnding its fulfillment? Can you and
desire and seek after divine intelll-
gence, whose effects are love, health,
and security, and be thwarted by
some influence able to interfere? My
| friend, God is the only power: and
God is the Mind of man, to be ac-
knOwledged and demonstrated. Man
Is never at the mercy of anything
outside himself II is your privilege
and mine to think our own thoughts,
10 be at one with the Mind that is
perfect. We do not need to accept
notions, conclusions. assumptions
which deny the reality of spiritual
ideas which come from God We can
always and under all circumstances
assert the reality and dominion of
our divinely derived intelligence.
II notions of mortality, limitation.
unspirituality seem to knock at the
gate of our consciousness, that is
malpractice, whether seeming to
proceed from ignorance alone or
from malicious intention to harm.
And the handling Of malpractice is
always the same-the recognition
and utilization Of immortal Mind as
the only Mind Of man, thus exelud-
ing the suggestions of evil. The sug-
gestions of evil may seem to come
often. They 90 no harm, but rather
strengthen us in Truth. if unbelieVed
and completely rejected. They came
even TO the pure consciousness Of
Christ Jesus but he handled them
with definiteness and finality. sup
plying us. is always. the perfect ex-
ample. He knew that the handling
of evil consists in the rejection Of
evil, and. accordingly, he declared
" the prince of this world COM
eth, and hath nothing in me" (JOhn
- 14a301-rnothinK IN his mentality
which is akin to evil and therefore
able to believe in evil II is only the
consciousness Of limitation that can
experience limitation, the conscious
ness Of heaFlbTeak and loneliness
that can experience heartbreak and
loneliness, the Consciousness of dis
ease or death that can experience
disease or death. But the only Mind
is the Mind which is God. In the de-
gree that you demonstrate that fact,
you will find no consciousness of
evil in you, and therefore no evil af-
ieeting yOur life. And, conversely.
you will find all good appearing. The
DiscOyerer Of Christian Science has
made il plain that the mind of the
individual only can produce result
upon his body (Christian Healing,
6;2l-22). Let us persistently ac-
knowledge the only Mind to be di-
vine. producing by its law. the re-
suits Of beauty and holiness.
EYil Is Always False
But how about the case where
mortal mind seems to succeed in
being believed. and the results Of
evil seem to appear? Evil is always
false, and therefore nothing, and the |
proof of that fact can be unfaillng- |
ly made. Christ Jesus has already I
supplied the example He permitted |
the crueifiXiOn. which he might have /
a aA a oh q
way to conquer the seeming pres /
ence of evil. He proved its power
lessness By persistent recognition
Of his spiritual being he kept his
sense OF selfhOod beyond the range
Of mortal hatred to harm. Evil could
not impress his consciousness and
therefore was robbed of its illusion
lf existing. This is the way oil vic
iOry. Il is not the way of the escap-
st. II by that term is meant the
who runs. and leaves the
sense Of evil appearing to be some
hing. to be real and capable of pow
.r. Christian Scientists are not es-
,apists. They overcome. They face
he illusions of material sense with
he spiritual sense which erases the
Illusions. If they walk through the
ALLEY OF the shadow of death. they,
ike the Psalmist, fear no evil. for
hey know that evil is unreal to God
md must be so to man. They fight
he good fight" miscellaneous Writ
ngs, 27S;6-7l by utilizing the activ-
~ OF spiritual truth to blot ont the
falsehOOd which seems to
ammer for admission to thought.
hey do not release themselves from
heir sO-called problems-run away
rom the field OF battle. They set out {
nth the courage Of the Christ and
he enduring weapons of divine war /
are 10 prove their problems to be
ense Illusions; and God, in the i'm ;
lediacy OF His own divine will, re- {
sases them from their problems. {
such warfare they grow in
lature as the children of GOd-each {
! his own niche in time and eter- {
ity'' (Retrospection and Introspec- I
on, 70:1S-19). They bring out in ]
the qualities which are '
Ientihed with true Characteristic '
laraeter Of the Christ They hold I
leir ranks open with the joyous and '
lseliish motive Of making plain the :
ay OF salvation 10 all who desire {
lminion, by spiritual means. over b
le tyrannical limitations OF the i
ssh. We are not promised happi- S
IS In material allurements; but o
e are promised victory by spiritual o
cans. and victory Is coordinate with b
y Robert Frost. the poet, has truly n
i'd; The best way out is always Il
rough Christian Science agrees, K