Article February 2, 1899 Issue

"Fear Not"

BY E. L. C.

As each receives the light of this glorious Truth of Christian Science and begins to demonstrate or prove it, the temptation often comes to look at things from the material point. How difficult seem the conditions to be met; how stubborn and tenacious the clinging to the material or the false, and with it comes the thought of our weakness or inability to meet and overcome them.

To such comes the helpful experience of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, recorded in the twentieth chapter of Second Chronicles. The narrative is truly wonderful in the light of Christian Science and will bear much study.

Here is a great multitude of mortal beliefs, fear, pride, selfishness, stubbornness—coming against us to battle—to be destroyed. Mortal sense fears before them, but we set our face to seek the Lord and ask help of Him. Is not Jehoshaphat's prayer ours? "O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? ... O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee."

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