Editorial October 28, 1911 Issue

HINDRANCES MADE HELPFUL

John B. Willis

The writer of the twenty-seventh Psalm dwells upon the authority and power of God which are pledged for the salvation of "the meek of the earth," and then adds by way of assurance, that the very wrath of man shall be made to praise Him. This declaration of the eternal supremacy of Truth, even to the realization of gain from the resentment of error, naturally leads us to recall that crowning cruelty of human hate which served to bring within the grasp of human understanding the glorious reach and power of divine Love as revealed in Christ Jesus. We think, too, of the persecutions of the early Christians, which resulted in the sowing of the redemptive seed of Truth in every land whither they were driven.

With the growth of material sense Christian believers lost the expectation of divine deliverance from threatening ills which signalized the early church, and it is only as spiritual awakening is experienced through the practical demonstration of Truth's ever-presence that the providential guidance and overruling in human affairs is again relied upon and rejoiced in. Christian Science is bringing to men a new sense of the serviceability of divine law in their behalf, by proving in all the world that it is the prerogative, aye, the very genius of true faith, to rule in righteousness, to extract good from every possible show of mortal resistance to the authority of Truth and Love.

Realizing this sovereign relation of "the knowledge of God" to life, St. Paul dared to voice his splendid challenge to error. "Who shall separate us," he cries, "from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." And yet it would seem that this is the offense of Christian Science, in the thought of some, that it declares for the lawfulness and naturalness of this practical, day-by-day overcoming through Christ in which the great preacher thus gloried. Surely no evidence of the removal of much present belief from the apostolic point of view could be more conclusive!

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