Article February 9, 1918 Issue

Spiritual Protection

MABEL K. DIXON

It has been said that to have our interests along any line spiritually protected, those interests must be the result of spiritual thinking. An occasional declaration to the effect that what we are engaged in is primarily spiritual is not sufficient; there must be the constant knowing that it is true, and the constant mental protection of this fact from the doubts and fears of human belief about it. What is this spiritual thinking that is to be our protection from evil under every circumstance of human experience? Is it not the knowing of the spiritual fact about each condition that presents itself? Is it not to dwell "in the secret place of the most High," and is not the protection which this gives the abiding "under the shadow of the Almighty"? Abiding in the thought of God! Could there be a safer place?

We are told throughout the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that we are given spiritual power wherewith to be defended from every shaft of error. Our spiritual armor must, however, be worn constantly, for in the stress and emergency of daily encounter with the foe—"the terror by night," "the arrow that flieth by day," "the destruction that wasteth at noonday"—there is no time to look up our armor and don it before the enemy can deal us some blows that could never have reached us had our armor been on.

The experience of a business woman, who is a Christian Scientist, in one of our large cities, furnishes a practical illustration of this spiritual protection. Returning from work at night at a later hour than usual, and on a street where there were few pedestrians, she was stopped by a man who persisted that she recognize him as some one whom she had previously met. In the hollow of her arm she held a package of Christian Science literature and her shopping bag, but there was no attempt to take her purse. If the man's thought had been to rob her he did not attempt it. The daily effort to know that substance is spiritual had lifted her above the belief that the contents of a purse are substance, and thereby his thought was turned away from it as anything to be desired or taken. Both were blessed in that the man was prevented from doing a dishonest act and the woman was protected from being the victim of dishonesty. If, on the other hand, a thought of immorality was trying to reach her, it found, as did the lions with Daniel, nothing to attract animality; the daily endeavor to reflect more and more of the purity of divine Mind was as a mantle of protection around her. And if, as came to her thought, there was the mortal belief of insanity, the daily trying to know that there is but one Mind had become so habitual that the false belief in a mind apart from God, a mind which could be insane or harmful, no longer caused the intense fear it once did. There being no fear manifested, there was nothing for such a belief to think it could harm.

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