Editorial May 24, 1913 Issue

FEAR OVERCOME

Annie M. Knott

It is somewhat surprising that after two thousand years of Christianity the admission should be made by professed Christians that fear practically dominates the human race. One thoughtful man says: "We are born cowards. Our mothers feared for us before we were born. . . . All who had anything to do with us feared something evil would happen to us. . . . We feared our parents, our teachers, the minister, the dark, the devil, and even feared God, who St. John says is Love." This is truly a dark picture of mortal existence, yet the Bible tells us that "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." Whence then this arch enemy of mankind?

None who have looked into Christian Science without prejudice can deny that it has done more to overcome fear than has anything since the time of Christ Jesus. There are none who like to be charged with cowardice, yet until humanity comes to know the infinite power of divine Love and Truth to protect from all evil, a nameless terror seems to haunt the steps of mortals, and worst of all, until the advent of Christian Science a good deal of the religious teaching tended to foster instead of dispel this mental condition. In a story of New England people by Mrs. Stowe, the author makes one of the characters repeat to a timid little girl these lines from a hymn,—

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