Article June 12, 1943 Issue

So Live

ELLA H. HAY

The cause of freedom is not dignified by the prediction that disaster will befall great numbers of brave men who go forth to fight for their country. There is every reason why those who sacrifice so much for the good of mankind should live. Mary Baker Eddy tells us (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 325). "He who has the true idea of good loses all sense of evil, and by reason of this is being ushered into the undying realities of Spirit. Such a one abideth in Life,—life obtained not of the body incapable of supporting life, but of Truth, unfolding its own immortal idea."

Christian Scientists are expected to refrain from predicting or prophesying evil, and it is wiser and more profitable to do this than to yield to fear. A part of one of the rules found in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy (Art. VIII. Sect. 1) reads. "The members of this Church should daily watch and pray to be delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously."

Man was made to live. God is man's Life. Life is spiritual and not material. The fighting men who understand this great fact are, so to speak, taking the serpent by the tail, as Moses did, and finding it a staff on which to lean. Looking to God for direction and protection, they are proving that He is "a very present help in trouble." The courage, purity of thought, and unselfishness they express are evidences of abiding life. Reaping and sowing being inevitably correlated, we see that self-forgetfulness and affection beget life. High purposing has nothing in common with death.

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