Editorial May 17, 1941 Issue

"See that ye be not troubled"

Evelyn F. Heywood

The gentle command of Christ Jesus, "See that ye be not troubled," is as a voice speaking to each one wherever fear or perplexity seeks entry into the heart. Blind hope for or expectation of good will not deliver men from being troubled; only he who sees, who discerns spiritually the reason for such deliverance, will be consistently maintained in the midst of apparent darkness and defeat, loss and suffering, confident, clear-eyed, and serene.

Centuries before Jesus set this standard of faith and the understanding of good's supremacy, the writer of Job had asked the dynamic question: "When he giveth quietness. who then can make trouble?" This is, in fact, the one challenge to all material thinking with its prognostications of human achievement or failure, reward or penalty, health or sickness, based upon premises which make no acknowledgment, owe no allegiance to God. The divine law of quietness, of inner peace and power, is man's inalienably as God's witness and representative. Into that inner citadel of Soul trouble cannot enter. He who would see reality, the glory of God's work, fulfilled and perfect, will allow no stormy or subtle infiltration of his stronghold. No acceptance of mortal testimony will be permitted to darken his vision and to weaken his defenses.

On page 276 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy has written, "I pray that all my students shall have their lamps trimmed and burning at the noon of night, that not one of them be found borrowing oil, and seeking light from matter instead of Spirit, or at work erroneously, thus shutting out spiritual light." And she adds, "Error giveth no light, and it closes the door on itself."

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