Article February 19, 1921 Issue

The Good Fight

DAVENPORT BROMFIELD

Paul in his first epistle to Timothy said, "Fight the good fight of faith," and later on in his second epistle, "I have fought a good fight." It is now a demonstrated fact that, just as there is a rule governing the composition of music with all its diversity of expression and a rule governing and elucidating all problems in mathematics, so the universe including man is governed and supported by divine Principle, God. This being so, it behooves us as intelligent beings to find out all we can regarding this divine Principle. Christian Science declares that this divine Principle is Mind, Spirit, and that His creation is purely spiritual. It supports this declaration by demonstration and proof in the healing of sin and sickness and in making mankind better, happier, and healthier. Why, then, any need of a fight, even a good fight? In one dictionary the definition of the word fight is "striving for victory."

To-day the very air seems impregnated with evil suggestion, evil because contradictory and having no certain foundation. It is suggested on the one hand that our country increase its army and navy expenditures; that enemies lurk ready to pounce upon us and annihilate us; on another, that we do not need to arm because we are so strong that no one would dare molest us. It is suggested that we restrict immigration because so many undesirables are coming to our shores, and that we invite immigration because the farmers are short of help. It is suggested that our government intervene in the affairs of other countries, and that we also stand for self-determination. One thing we should all certainly stand for and that is the right to do our own thinking; but to obtain this right may seem to require at times a mental struggle.

It is even suggested that students of Christian Science should do this and do that and in fact everything but mind their own business. Every faithful student of Christian Science has his own business to attend to, and that business is God's business. Any one who accepts false suggestion and constantly interferes with another's problem will reap what he sows. Paul again says, in his epistle to the Ephesians, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world." It is therefore clear to the student of Christian Science what this good fight is. It is not a fight against flesh and blood, for they are outside the realm of metaphysics, the arena of the Christian Scientist. It is a spiritual fight against principalities and powers, alias mental suggestion.

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