Article September 24, 1927 Issue

A Lesson in Love's Unfailing Protection

JAMES FANT ROGERS

Mankind is continually seeking to obtain more of contentment, satisfaction, peace, and happiness. So-called mortal mind is ever trying to emphasize discontent, dissatisfaction, and unrest. It would have us believe that some disaster, accident, disease, or calamity may come at any minute to destroy.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." We should be grateful and give thanks for the wonderful confidence, assurance, and protection that this beautiful truth holds for us every minute. We are always grateful for overcoming and proving the utter nothingness of some error that may have seemed to overpower and utterly overwhelm us for a time. But should we not be just as grateful, if not more so, for the knowledge that we have been watchful and alert and instant to deny some erroneous thought and to replace it with the truth before it became manifest in a complication of symptoms to be later overcome?

The writer recalls an experience that occurred one afternoon in October, 1918, in the Argonne forest during the World War, that made plain how we may be unconditionally protected at any time and at all times, in however trying or seemingly hazardous a situation we may be placed. About four o'clock a note was received ordering the capture of a machine gun about two hundred yards to our front and right. When this point was reached it was learned that instead of one large machine gun, placed and embedded in the ground as was the general method, there were numerous movable guns mounted on tripods; and a steady stream of fire was directed just over our heads as we dug in immediately upon getting into position. At the same time two trench mortars began shelling the line, and each hit and shellburst came gradually closer, showing that direct range was had on our location. It looked as though in a few minutes there would be direct hits on the line. An airplane was also dropping bombs from above, and to mortal sense there was no avenue of escape. At this point there came to the writer a calm and peacefulness that lifted thought into the consciousness of Spirit, and there was immediate realization of God's infinite presence, and of His wonderful, all-embracing love—to such an extent that every vestige of seeming discord was entirely eliminated from thought and there was only the consciousness of inexpressible joy, happiness, calm, security, and peace. In a short time a runner came forward with orders for immediate withdrawal, and the command to fall back was given, a command which the writer had never before heard while in active combat, nor did he ever hear it used again—and in the end not one was killed.

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