Editorial April 9, 1910 Issue

"FEAR NOT."

Archibald McLellan

In reading the testimonies of healing received at this office for publication, the editors have been greatly impressed with a feeling that, next to the spiritual uplift which the study and practice of Christian Science have given the writers of these testimonies, the most important thing is that a great weight of fear has been lifted from their shoulders and they realize that they are indeed free. The healing of these persons has been not simply the cure of some disease, but, much more than this, the banishment of a fear which had been not only a part of the ills of which they had been healed, but also a factor in all their business, social, and religious activities.

Probably no one who has experienced this healing in Christian Science can look back upon his former experience without wondering how he could have been held in such utter bondage to a nameless fear, or how he could have given such implicit allegiance to something of which he was not conscious. How many of these people would have admitted in the old days that they were lacking in either moral or physical courage, or that they were ignorant of that truth of which Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"? Almost every one will agree, as a general proposition, that ignorance and fear are copartners, and many will go farther and agree—still as a general proposition—that ignorance is the cause of fear; but never since the days of our Master, until the revelation of Christian Science through the inspired thought of Mrs. Eddy, has the knowing of the truth made men truly free.

The truth which Jesus said should give freedom in this way, was the truth about God and man,—that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent; that He is not the author of evil, therefore evil does not possess either power or entity; also that man is made in the image and likeness of God, therefore man can be subject only to that which is good, for we read in the first chapter of Genesis that God declared His creation to be good, and in this account of the spiritual creation we find neither fear nor sin mentioned, but only that which is "good" and "very good."

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