Editorial February 20, 1943 Issue

Why Do Protective Work?

Paul Stark Seeley

Now and then a well-meaning Christian Scientist has been heard to say to another something like this: "You had better do good protective work for yourself, or something is likely to happen." How much better it would be to say:

"You have here a splendid opportunity to prove your sonship with God and the impotence of evil. Do your work, and rejoice."

Christian Science teaches us hourly to know the powerlessness of all evil, and the complete protection God, everywhere-present good, affords us. It does not teach that we should work to unsee evil's claims because we are afraid that, if we do not, they will overwhelm us. Nowhere does Christ Jesus or Mrs. Eddy teach that fear of harm is the motive that should impel us to unsee the lies of evil. Fear is never a motivating influence in those who understand God's man.

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