Article May 7, 1955 Issue

WE NEED NOT FEAR THE WEATHER

MILDRED D. RUSSELL

The destructive elements of weather are believed to be an unavoidable necessity which mankind must endure. Storms, damaging winds and waves, and temperatures believed to be harmful to men, beast, and crops are all taken as a matter of course.

Yet the Bible relates that when a great tempest arose and the waves covered the ship in which the disciples and Jesus were crossing the Galilean sea, Jesus "rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm" (Matt. 8:26). Evidently the Master did not accept as reality the picture of imminent destruction presented by the material senses or share the disciples' fear, for he asked, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?"' The tumultuous waves and the fury of the winds evidently caused the disciples to forget the ever-present power of God.

In the universe of spiritual ideas there is nothing harmful or menacing, for Mind creates and governs all in eternal harmony. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy states (p. 293), "There is no vapid fury of mortal mind—expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity—and this so-called mind is self-destroyed."

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