Article November 29, 1913 Issue

Fear Overcome by Truth

J. G. ALDEN

Christian Science has brought me many ideas of Truth which have enriched my life. One is especially satisfying,—the knowledge that so-called heredity is a man-made belief and has no foundation in reality. The writer has two children in his home who were adopted in infancy. In my opinion, environment in their case had thus far outweighed heredity; but until I became interested in Christian Science I was possessed with a haunting fear that unknown, undesirable traits which might have been possessed by the parents of these children, would sometime appear in their lives to harm and perhaps undo them, and bring disappointment and sorrow to their foster-parents. I was always conscious of this fear in my own mind, and also afraid that such fear would be communicated to my adopted son and daughter and so become both a baneful influence and a stumbling-block.

After I became a student of Christian Science, however, I was overjoyed to find, in thinking one day about this same problem, that the fear which I had so long held had been entirely dissipated, and existed no longer in my thought to have its blighting effect both upon me and the children. This had come about through a realization that in their true selfhood these children were not children of a physical parentage but of God, made in His image and likeness. I had come to realize that the asserted law which would fetter innocence with ills, is not of God; that all false beliefs are set at naught by the truth that God's children are never fettered by inherited shortcomings. I also saw that if divine Love and wisdom intended I should rear these forsaken children as my own, it must also be God's will that I should know the truth which sets them and me free from the bondage of belief in heredity, and which brings to all a heritage of health, harmony, and happiness. It is well for all to keep ever before thought the Master's words, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

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