The Retreating Foe

Weak warfare do we deem it, and cowardly soldiers they, who fail or falter under the fire of a retreating foe.

Nineteen centures ago, Jesus' understanding of Truth enabled him to defeat the common enemy of mankind. At his command, discordant hosts fled the field. Not death, but life, not mourning, but rejoicing followed the bloodless victories of the Prince of Peace. The day was ours, the victory was won; but faint-hearted sentinels have mistaken the disorganized bands of a retreating foe for reinforcements, and have yielded themselves captive to the shattered allies of materiality.

One, however, brave and alert, caught anew Freedom's reveille and called men to retrieve their rightful dominion. Thousands are answering the glad summons and are valiantly striving to recover their lost estate.

Each individual life and each individual demonstration of Truth is an epitome of this warfare for the reclamation of liberty. The way has been shown, the possibility established, it is ours to regain and to hold the field. Let us speak the word of God, the word of Life, of Love, and know that the show of resistance which would affright us is but the feeble fusillade of a defeated foe, demoralized, powerless, nothing.

The same discordant conditions of a sin-darkened consciousness, the same fear, the same doubt, the same treachery, the same resort to materiality meet us to-day that met humanity's Healer in the infant century; and to-day, as then, conscious unity with God measures our triumph over every false claim of error.

The world of Truth is spoken; the sin that shadowed the past is vanquished. All is aglow with hope and happiness, vigor is restored, youth is renewed, and the day is ours,—but in the very midst of our overcoming, is there a return of the assault? Oh no! these are but the spiteful and random shots of the retreating foe.

Fear not! "Be sober, be vigilant." The armor of love is impervious to every shaft of malice, of envy, of despair. We are the victors. S.

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