Editorial July 18, 1942 Issue

Power

Evelyn F. Heywood

Men have been taught to think of the source and origin of power as something outside themselves, exercised benevolently or malevolently; as something over which they have, if any, only a precarious control. Those who have earned it or those upon whom it has been thrust by circumstance, have wielded this power, with moderation or at times with utter disregard for the rights of others.

"God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this," said the Psalmist, "that power belongeth unto God." In the line of divine creation, all power being vested in Mind and its expression, there is no repetitive process. He who hears that which God has spoken once, and then is aware of hearing it again, would appear to have forgotten or at least not fully taken congnizance of it the first time. Between the first and the second hearing he would appear to have been listening to something else not in conformity with it.

"What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death?" asks Mary Baker Eddy on pages 224 and 225 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And she replies: "Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free."

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