Article March 14, 1936 Issue

Irresistible Truth

MYRTLE R. BIGGINS

Sitting on the beach one day, a Christian Scientist was pondering how best one could do one's part to help lighten the load of fear and anxiety that is so apparent in the world today. As so often happens, a sense of personal responsibility had crept in. As she looked up from her quiet thought, she saw the waves rolling in, one after another, and breaking into silvery spray as they neared the shore. A large group of bathers was standing boldly in the water and breasting the waves. It was plain that whether it were one bather, or a regiment united in their efforts to do so, they could not stem the tide. How certain it is that the divine impulsion of spiritual law is irresistable, and that even though millions of resisting mortal beliefs may be arrayed against its oncoming, the power and might of God's law, overturning and overturning, cannot be stayed.

We may at times be perplexed at the mortal tendencies to defy justice and sacrifice fellow beings to an unjust cause. We may be shocked at human efforts to satisfy mad ambition, and through misguided judgment to seek temporal power and place. How truly the signs of all times have proved that the might of God's law of justice is irresistible! Mrs. Eddy proved through her own experiences that "no power can withstand divine Love," as she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 224). Through Christian Science, the understanding and demonstration of divine Love in the world today is opening the gates to freedom for sin-sick, disease-weary, poverty-stricken, self-willed mortals. Through the spiritual awakening that is going on, the influences of evil both individually and nationally are being checked and arrested. Again our Leader states (ibid., pp. 96, 97): "During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection." How important that we "cheerfully await" this "ultimate perfection"! A sad face and a heavy heart do not bespeak confidence in this "certainty of ultimate perfection." Does not our obedience to Christian Science demand that as we go forward doing our part toward the establishment of God's kingdom, we do it cheerfully?

In studying the life of our great Master, recorded in the four Gospels, we are impressed with the fact that he was wholly concerned with the establishment of true government, the government of divine Principle, and that he diligently applied his understanding of irresistible Truth to the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth, knowing that eventually peace and good will would be permanently and universally demonstrated. For that reason he could say with assurance, "See that ye be not troubled." His efforts were devoted to awakening the dormant thought to a recognition of the present and unending government of divine Principle as the only real government. And Christian Scientists have the glorious opportunity and great privilege of helping to establish this true government in accordance with Christ Jesus' words and works. We do not read that Jesus went about discussing the abuses of the Roman empire and deploring the injustices of the human administration of law. His work was establishing obedience to the law of God and proving to humanity that as God's law is understood and demonstrated, the false law and false prophets are silenced, even as when the demonstration of true harmony in music silences the opposite discord.

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