Editorial March 27, 1943 Issue

"None shall make them afraid"

Evelyn F. Heywood

What prophecy could fall more graciously on hearts worn and weary with the dangers, privations, and captivities of their time; what promise could bring sweeter comfort to the people of God, than the assurance that none should make them afraid? Centuries after Isaiah had written these words, Christ Jesus was to voice the same truth: "Nothing shall by any means hurt you."

Doubtless the children of Israel believed that with the Red Sea between them and Pharaoh, danger and privation would be at an end. Men have often believed that with one major menacing calamity or another removed, prosperity and peace would ensue. But wars have followed wars, discords and dangers have succeeded one another, because the basic fear of evil was not removed. Nevertheless, Isaiah brought the divine assurance that "none shall make them afraid."

On page 61 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Science saith to fear, 'You are the cause of all sickness; but you are a self-constituted falsity,—you are darkness, nothingness. You are without "hope, and without God in the world." You do not exist, and have no right to exist, for "perfect Love casteth out fear."'" This is the mandate of Science. Not that we submit to fear because it is inevitable; not that we try to escape from it; not that we merely courageously face it, but that we prove its nothingness. Why be afraid of what actually does not exist?

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