Editorial July 26, 1930 Issue

Who or What Will Harm You?

Duncan Sinclair

STUDENTS of the Bible are aware that men have been rendered immune from evil when their thought was sufficiently spiritualized. Joseph, for example, after he had been sold into slavery was in this way wonderfully protected, the purity of his thought and his steadfast faith in God saving him from the pitfalls of sin and the evil devices of mortals. Daniel's career affords another outstanding illustration of what faith and understanding will do. Loyal to the God of his fathers, he was able to endure the trials to which an enslaved people were subjected, and positively to demonstrate the power of spiritual understanding over animality in one of its fiercest forms in the den of lions.

Paul, too, on many occasions proved that the power of God was with him to protect and deliver him from danger. A notable instance of this was his rescue from shipwreck when on a voyage to Rome. Not only did the apostle himself reach the safety of the island of Melita (Malta), but, as it is recorded in the twenty-seventh chapter of Acts, "they escaped all safe to land." And not long after the shipwrecked men had reached Melita, Paul proved the power of spiritualized thought over a "venomous beast" which had "fastened on his hand," for "he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm." Referring to these episodes in the careers of Daniel and Paul, Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 514), "Understanding the control which Love held over all, Daniel felt safe in the lions' den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless."

Christian Science is showing that spiritual understanding will deliver men as efficiently to-day as it did centuries ago. Not only so, but Christian Science is actually bestowing upon men that same spiritual understanding. It was Mrs. Eddy's privilege as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science to emphasize the truth that God is good, even to declare that God is infinite good. But she did more than that: she deduced the fact that evil is unreal. Her reasoning was: since God is infinite good, nothing the opposite in nature to good can exist as reality; therefore evil is unreal. What a discovery was this! Thousands of people now accept Mrs. Eddy's discovery as true; but the time was—and not much over sixty years ago—when our Leader stood alone, the only one who knew that evil is unreal.

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