Article August 30, 1941 Issue

Assurance

[Written Especially for Young People]

HELEN TIFFANY REILLY

Many students of Christian Science who have attended the Sunday school, and have been surrounded by loving and helpful friends and relatives, find a new experience awaiting them when they leave their home atmosphere and step out into the world. Where heretofore a quiet sense of God's peace and plenty had been a daily part of their experience, now many new impressions, some of them pleasant, and some unpleasant, are presented to their thought. While Truth is quietly at work asserting its presence and power, error, in the guise of attractive habits and false concepts of life, may seem to bombard the student with deceptive promises and misleading suggestions. The clamor and hullabaloo of error would endeavor to shut out the quietness of Truth, and one may find that he has been indulging wrong thoughts. But this can be changed to right thinking and acting when we awake to see error's claims for what they are, and ask for God's guidance and protection.

The quiet assurance that God is presence and power, and that He is the only lawmaker, lifts thought above the mire of wrong thinking into the radiance of light, and causes us to understand that error of any sort is nothing, having no presence or power, since Truth and error cannot mingle.

Those who witnessed Christ Jesus' healing works marveled at his assurance. They said, "He taught them as one having authority." Elisha spoke with assurance when the hosts of Syria camped around the city of Dothan. His servant saw this terrifying array of horses and chariots, and came in panic to Elisha. But he was soon quieted by the prophet's statement, "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." Then Elisha prayed that his servant's eyes might be opened. In other words, he prayed that the wonders of God's presence and power should be spiritually discerned by his servant, and enable him to see the complete victory of spirituality over materiality and aggression. Mary Baker Eddy defines "eyes" on page 586 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."

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