Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Panoplied in Love
One Wednesday evening a Reader in a branch church read for one of his citations from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, these words (p. 571): "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you."
A number of soldiers from a near-by Cadet Training Center for the Army Air Force were present. As the Reader read that reference, a young airman turned towards the girl at his side, his face alight. He plainly said by his expression: "You see? That's what it is—that's why I'm safe." That comforting assurance from our loved textbook was just the message of Truth to give solid conviction to that young man's unfolding faith.
One definition, according to Webster, of the word "panoply" is "anything forming a bright or magnificent covering." The word is from the Greek panoplia, derived from pas, meaning "all," and hopla, meaning "armor." It had particular reference to the bright and shining suits of armor that were used in the days when knighthood was in flower. The covering was a complete armored protection from head to foot.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
January 8, 1944 issue
View Issue-
Panoplied in Love
ISRAEL PICKENS
-
Man's True Business
RUTH M. KRAUSE
-
"How can mechanism be automatic?"
JOHN HERMON TERRY, JR.
-
Love's Awareness
DOROTHY NASH SYMON
-
Grief Can Be Overcome
DOROTHY MOSELEY BARSON
-
God's Guidance
PETER B. BIGGINS
-
Testimonies
ADELAIDE K. CARRYL
-
Omnipresence
RUTH CATHERINE JONES
-
Progress through Experience
DANENE C. STEWART
-
Our Joyous Communion Service
John Randall Dunn
-
"Drink ye all of it"
Evelyn F. Heywood
-
Few have had more for which to...
Stuart E. Johnson
-
Twenty years ago, when I was...
Emma Elizabeth Adams
-
It is a number of years since I...
Nida W. Brown
-
I feel that I have delayed too...
Rose L. Dick
-
One winter evening in 1934, I...
Gerald A. Newman
-
It is with a deep sense of gratitude...
Mona J. Newman
-
For more than twenty-five years...
M. Lucretia Hayden
-
With sincere gratitude to God...
Alice Wheeler Hammond
-
Christian Science was presented...
M. Renetta Schafer
-
God Doth Preserve His Own
OMA OLNA MARTIN
-
Signs of the Times
with contributions from Chiang Kai-shek, Basil Mathews, Archie R. Crouch