Article September 27, 1913 Issue

Protection in Truth

BERTHA V. ZEREGA

"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: . . . Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand." So we read in Psalms. The writer remembers that she learned this passage in a Christian Sunday school at the age of seven years, but not until Christian Science had changed her thought from uncertainty and inquiry in religion, to faith and understanding, did the power and consolation of this as well as many other Bible texts become her possession. Christian Science brings to the student of its teachings not only the joyful assurance of God's ever-readiness to sustain us, to be our guide and counsellor, if we will but seek Him with unqualified confidence, but it also accurately shows the way, points us unswervingly to the straight and narrow path of divine Principle.

"First purify thought, then put thought into words, and words into deeds," is the instruction given us by Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 341). Pure, loving thoughts are spontaneously manifested in scientific healing, and until vigilance of self-examination and discipline becomes habitual in the Christian Scientist, he will look in vain for results of value either to himself or others. Our forward steps, being the direct outcome of right thinking, are "ordered by the Lord." Though we fall, as the psalmist says, be tempted to credit the counterfeit, or lie, as the truth, we "shall not be utterly cast down," for divine Love is ready to meet our every need.

In a recent experience the truth of the above quotation was beautifully unfolded to me. On my way to assist in the reading-room work, one afternoon, I slipped and fell with considerable force on one knee, and in an effort to catch myself, gave my wrist a severe wrench. Clinging to the fact that under divine guidance there can be no accidents, I found that the pain and stiffness left my knee almost immediately, and I was able to walk freely. All the sensations and indications of a badly injured wrist, however, kept clamoring for recognition, and when I arrived at the reading-room, I was about to sit down and quietly work for myself, when a visitor came in who was anxious to talk of Christian Science. While answering her questions, I found it somewhat difficult to keep my thought clear in regard to what seemed the injury, and the thought kept recurring, "Oh, if I only had the chance now to treat myself, instead of conversing in this way !" Suddenly she remarked, "I hear so many people say at the Wednesday evening meetings that they 'declare the truth;' now what do they mean by that, and how do they 'declare the truth'?"

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