Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Security

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= "a consciousness is for security
for assurance Of safety amid the
many adverse conditions which so
commonly beset mortal experience.
TO attain this sense requires con-
slant conscious effort on the part
Of humanity.
The student Of the Bible finds.
that the people Of the distant times
with which the Scriptures deal
sought and found this very sense of
security in the divine omnipotence,
which they termed Jehovah" Many
inspired writer's expressed their as
surance Of safety in the Most High,
when obedient to Him. No better
example Of this sense of safety in
Deity appears in the Bible than the
ninety-firSt Psalm, in which multi
tudes Of distraught persons have
found peace based upon a complete
sense Of security. "He that dwell
| eth in the secret place of the most
High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty" runs the first
verse And assuredly such abiding
shields ore from harm. This assur-
ance is emphasized in the verses
that follow, until it seems that one
who has learned to dwell Gin the
secret place" has found a sense of
security wherein he may abide in
| perfect peace and safety.
The questions arise, By what
means may we learn to dwell in this
"secret place of the most High?
What is this place, and how is it
attained? The secret place is divine
consciousness. God is Mind, and
infinite Mind is infinite conscious
ness. When men attain, through
spiritual sense, the ability to enter
that divine state of consciousness,
they have gained the mental state
of peace and safety - spiritual
understanding of security which
may not be overthrown. Why? Be-
cause God, as infinite Mind, and His
universe Of spiritual ideas consti-
tute all reality, and nothing real or
permanent exists or has power or
presence apart from this infinitude
, Of reality.
Having gained this understand
ing, one rests securely, for he then
dwells in "the secret place." in the
perfect assurance of mans contin-
uous well-being. -. Man as Gods
likeness, His expression, IS idea,
image. Gods likeness, the likeness
Of Spirit, is spiritual. Therefore
man is the expression Of Mind, OF
| Spirit; and this Mind, which is in
finite divine consciousness, is con-
scious of its own idea, that is, of
man. When individuals realize that,
as children Of God, divine ideas,
they forever dwell in the conscious
ness which is divine, they have
gained the perfect sense of security.
Gods creation is permanent and
perfect. 1t can never be disturbed
or destroyed by any phase of evil.
! Error OF whatsoever type or form
\ has no power to change or destroy
that which God has made. Surely
there could be no greater sense Of
security, of perfect safety, than the
understanding that, as the child of
God, man is forever as perfect in a
degree as God Himself; that man
is coexistent and coeternal with
God; hence, that man is eternal, in
deStTuctible When this understand
ing is gained, the fears that beset
mortal existence fade from con-
seriousness, and mortals know the
joy Of dwelling in "the secret
place." true consciousness.
This sense Of dwelling in safety
is an everyday possibility. And it
makes no difference as to the
dangers which may beset us. There
is no condition in which mortals
\ may find themselves where this I'M
derstanding is not applicable. In
the midst Of wars, Of turmoils,
! dangers at sea, the battlefront. in
short, in any condition in which we
may find ourselves, this understand
| ing leads to a perfect sense of
safety. Since God is ever present,
divine consciousness is ever and
everywhere available as the refuge
from all harm. Man, the real man,
| Gods likeness, never ceases to dwell
in that refuge, "under the shadow
Of the Almighty" And in so dwell
ing, there can no danger befall him.
No evil, no destructive power or in
( llFSlltCs van GllGCE ttidG SIdLG Vi COIl-
u soiousness wherein the real man
eternally abides.
! How clearly is this expressed in
the twentv-third Psalm: Though /
walk through the valley Of the
/ shadow Of death, will fear no evil:
for thou art with me; thy rod and
thy staff they comfort me-! The
Psalmist dweit in the perfect as
surance that God, divine Love, is
| forever caring for His image and
likeness. Whittier expresses this
thought in beautiful quatrain:
Il know not where His islands lift
Tier fronded palms in air;
| only know I cannot drift
! neyood His love and care"
L10rCa-S can never be in any place
where divine Love is not present
! and ava;l2h'e to meet the human
need. Mary Baker Eddy has ex-
pressed this beautifully and en-
phatically on page 494 Of Science
and Health: "Divine Love always
has met and always will meet every
human need" Security, then, from
every i'll, is found in the conscious
ness OF the ever-nresance of divine
Love which meets all needs.
The Christian Science Monitor.