Article February 26, 1921 Issue

"It is well"

ADAM DICKSON

What a cause for rejoicing students of Christian Science have to-day for being able to say amid all the seeming strife and turmoil throughout the world, "It is well." On page 223 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says: "Marvels, calamities, and sin will much more abound as truth urges upon mortals its resisted claims; but the awful daring of sin destroys sin, and foreshadows the triumph of truth. God will overturn, until 'He come whose right it is.'"

The healing truth is to-day replacing the false beliefs of life, truth, intelligence, and substance in matter, with the result that error is being forced from its hiding places. Finding itself thus disturbed it may manifest itself in turbulent rapids of strikes, uprisings, and general upheavals, or gather itself into stagnant pools of indolence and discontent, or any other of the forms whereby it deceives the whole world by declaring that a solution of its problems can be gained in that way. Sooner or later Spirit proves that where discord seemed to be, harmony is found, and the strife is stilled. Where error had filled human thought, divine Love's purity is manifest, and the overflowing waters of truth now refresh the earth with peace, prosperity, and happiness.

Students of Christian Science alone know what the upheaval means. It is, as Mrs. Eddy says in the passage before quoted, truth urging upon mortals its resisted claims, and sin destroying itself. It is necessary, therefore, that we keep awake and do not become mesmerized by all the seeming turmoil going on to-day. We must give no power to it whatever, no more than does the practitioner to any disease he may be called upon to heal. This does not mean we are to shut our eyes and say, "There is no turmoil," but it means that we see the nothingness of its seeming power by looking to what spiritual sense knows is there. Material sense would have us believe that there is strife, turmoil, disturbances, and discontent; that there is sickness, disease, and death, and that God is the author of these. Spiritual sense, or Christian Science, destroys these false views, proves that man is quite apart from matter, demonstrates his safety, and brings to light his oneness with God, wherein he can truly say, "It is well."

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