Editorial January 17, 1931 Issue

God, Our Refuge

Duncan Sinclair

Christian Science is indeed humanity's Comforter, even as it is humanity's healer. Christ Jesus promised that the Comforter should come to "teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." And those who know what Christian Science teaches are certain that his words apply to Christian Science, for they have found that this Science does teach them the truth about "all things,"—the absolute truth,—and by enlightening them on the nature of God and His creation does cause them to remember the spiritual truths the Master taught.

Mortals believe that they are living in matter, and that matter is essential to life; and until this belief is conquered, it will seem to result in all manner of supposititious suffering. And it will be conquered when it is universally understood through divine Science that since God, Spirit, is infinite, Spirit and its manifestations alone are real. This teaching reveals the truth that the real man is altogether spiritual, and shows the unreal nature of matter and so-called material man. Mrs. Eddy says on page 83 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that "mortals must find refuge in Truth in order to escape the error of these latter days." This is what Christian Scientists are proving. Repeatedly, when material sense would have them believe in the reality of evil and would cause them thereby to suffer, they have turned to Truth and Love and have found themselves delivered.

The truths which Christian Science reveals are available for all; and all may find a refuge in an understanding of them. And the more thought is allowed to dwell on the facts of spiritual being, the more thought becomes spiritualized; and this means that the victory is being gained over material sense and the suffering which subservience to it entails. The relationship between God and spiritual man never changes—it is an eternally perfect relationship. What happens as thought is spiritualized is that we obtain a clearer understanding of this divine relationship, conform to it more closely, and so proportionately demonstrate God to be our refuge. As our Leader writes (Unity of Good, p. 57), "Man's refuge is in spirituality, 'under the shadow of the Almighty.'"

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