Article May 1, 1943 Issue

Protection

BEATRICE DE F. BARTLE

No soldier would fear the forefront of the battle if he knew that there encompassed him a presence and power which the shafts of danger could not penetrate. And yet there is such a presence and power; moreover, it is available to all who understandingly and unreservedly reach out for it, as many students of Christian Science have proved during these grim and hazardous times.

Christian Science teaches that in the measure of our realization of the allness of God, and of man's unity with the Father, in that measure do the menacing shadows of evil disappear from our path. The great fact of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, faithfully adhered to, inevitably nullifies evil's claim to power or presence. On the other hand, leaving God out of our lives means relinquishing our hold upon a sure anchorage and placing ourselves under the false, shifting, so-called material laws with all their dangers and limitations, thereby becoming the victims of chance and circumstance, instead of their master.

In the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 387): "The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering." Through the Bible pages there run like a golden thread instances of God's unfailing protection for those who trusted in Him and endeavored always to live close to Him. The Psalms, covering nearly a thousand years of Israel's history, touch upon nearly every phase of earthly experience. In them we find the key to success, the secret of how to pass unscathed through the direst perils. The one hundred and forty-fifth Psalm, full of gratitude for God's unspeakable goodness, voices these words, so universal in their appeal and application: "The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them."

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