Article May 17, 1924 Issue

"Wherefore didst thou doubt?"

IRVING C. TOMLINSON

Doubt of spiritual truth is a denial of the allness and goodness of God and of His government as real. He who knows that God, good, governs, walks unharmed over the waves of mortal belief. He who doubts loses hold of divine Principle, and sinks in the waters of unbelief—the realm of the unreal. He who understands Christ, Truth, does not doubt; for he knows that material sense and all its claims are fictitious and powerless to harm. Doubt spells disintegration. Trust, confidence in good, spells victory. Hence, only ignorance doubts; the man of understanding is no doubter.

When Jesus walked on the water, as related in the fourteenth chapter of Matthew, he was acting in perfect accord with all that he had hitherto been saying and doing in Galilee and Judea. He had healed the centurion's servant while absent from him, raised Jairus' daughter when present with her, turned the water into wine, and fed five thousand with "five barley loaves, and two small fishes." All this Jesus did through his understanding of the Science of being. He gave irrefutable proof that matter and evil are not a law or power, and that Spirit, God, is the only law and the only power.

After Jesus had fed the five thousand, he was so thronged, so pressed upon by personality and by human will-power on the part of the multitude, that he sent them away, directing his disciples to take a boat and sail to the other shore of the Sea of Galilee, while he went apart in prayer. John tells us of the import of that prayer, recounting that Jesus perceived that his followers "would come and take him by force, to make him a king." So the Master "went up into a mountain apart to pray"—to realize the truth of being—and so win a victory over the mad ambition of his unwise friends, and prove that blind force and human will are not power, since God only is power. Alone with God, divine Mind, Jesus met and mastered the so-called force of animal magnetism and, as a result, the storm of opposition to the truth which he made manifest. In the silence and calm of thought anchored in divine Principle, he realized the allness of impregnable good, God, and the nothingness of a supposititious opposite.

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