Article July 21, 1928 Issue

"Underneath are the everlasting arms"

JAMES FREDERICK SANDERS

Perhaps no person has ever more clearly proved the truth of the words, "Underneath are the everlasting arms," than did Moses, who gave them to us. For forty years Moses had been far from contact with men, especially with his own people, and it may seem natural that a certain diffidence should have crept into his thought. It must have taken more than ordinary courage for him to go before Pharaoh and demand the release of his people. Had he not known of the "everlasting arms," he would surely have succumbed when he came down from Mount Horeb and found idolatry rife among his people; and on many another occasion he was sustained through his understanding of God's nearness.

We read of David, Elijah, Jeremiah, and many others who had experiences that strengthened their faith in the upholding power of God. Christ Jesus based his entire experience on the fact that the Father is ever present; and Mrs. Eddy certainly could not have borne the scorn of her early statements of truth without reliance upon God.

When a student first plants his feet in the straight and narrow way of Christian Science, he is so filled with wonder and gratitude that he is willing to take all the promises contained in the Bible at their face value, and declare his faith in them; his path is all sunshine, and he is so overflowing with zeal in his new-found treasures that it seems he must shout his discovery to all the world and compel the inhabitants to listen. Later, he is called upon to demonstrate what he has declared, and then he finds that the practical part of Christian Science lies in the proving of every statement made in favor of it, whether these statements are in regard to the spiritual nature of the real man or to the promises made in the Bible; and there can be no excuse for not doing so, since every student will be called upon, at some time or other, to prove every statement he has made about Christ's Christianity; and each one learns to depend upon God under all circumstances, and to rely absolutely on the fact that "underneath are the everlasting arms."

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