Article May 17, 1941 Issue

Our Citadel

MICHAEL ST. JOHN O'CARROLL

Those who are sometimes almost overwhelmed by the seeming activities of evil may find great comfort in the Psalmist's prayer, "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I."

At times when Jesus found himself faced with difficult situations, he would retire in prayer, and Mary Baker Eddy, on page 12 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes, "It is neither Science nor Truth which acts through blind belief, nor is it the human understanding of the divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth,—of man's likeness to God and of man's unity with Truth and Love." Thus it was in his understanding of man's eternal oneness with God, and the fact of man's existence as a spiritual idea, that Jesus found a place of refuge from every form of danger.

The "rock that is higher than I" is man's immortal spiritual individuality, at all times higher than a so-called human selfhood; and it is our consciousness of this that enables us to lift up our heads above our enemies, above all the illegitimate and powerless claims of the one evil that would deprive us of our God-bestowed and God-preserved heritage of life and peace, of joy and health.

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