Article November 2, 1940 Issue

"I will overturn"

ROSE L. KEMPTHORNE

The prophet Ezekiel represented God as saying, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." Human history sustains the claim that right alone is sovereign and permanent. But individuals who would be on the right side must ally themselves with divine Principle, God. They must see clearly that the warfare is not against persons, cliques, or nations, for, as said the intrepid Paul, "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places;" in a word, against materialism, the generally accepted belief in a power opposed to God, Spirit.

Christian Science teaches, and has enabled its adherents measurably to demonstrate, the unreality and powerlessness of evil, in accordance with Scriptural authority that God, good, alone is real and all-powerful. The Christian Scientist is confident, because he has proved the efficacy of spiritual understanding to overcome erroneous beliefs and conditions, and he is thereby equipped to be of inestimable worth in helping to solve the problems facing the nations.

One of the subtle suggestions that the student needs to guard against is that with such stupendous numbers involved in world problems, such inexplicable angles, such large issues, the efforts of a single worker may be of little moment. Such mesmeric thinking is the enemy's own tool. Let us awake and remind ourselves, even in the face of contrary, material evidence, that good is real and evil is unreal. Has not this been our practice in solving our own problems in Christian Science? Just so, the clear knowing of absolute Truth, with faith in its power to neutralize error, outweighs the sum total of evil's boasted claims and accomplishments.

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