Article January 6, 1945 Issue

Nullifying the Flames

VERA R. COLLINS

"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." This God-sent promise through His prophet Isaiah is given a lucid explanation in Christian Science, which teaches that God is ever-present divine Mind, and that man, the image and likeness of God, is in conscious, indivisible oneness with Mind, consistently manifesting its beneficent intelligence and safety. Active reasoning from this faultless scientific standpoint brings the assurance that man, expressing uninterrupted unity and oneness with God, can never be separated from Him and is not the victim of disaster or of fiery flames.

The tendency of mortals to doubt man's complete immunity from danger is dispelled in the degree that they are thoroughly convinced that God, all-powerful good, is the only Mind of man; that man has no human or mortal mind of his own apart from and independent of God. He who refuses to be influenced by mental arguments of insecurity can know that as the individual idea of Mind he is subservient alone to this perfect Mind. The flames or carnal suggestions of fear, hatred, sin, sorrow, limitation, and disease cannot kindle upon the thoughts of love, purity, joy, and abundant whole-someness. Evil suppositions have no contact with spiritual ideas of courage and trust, nor can the fire of greed and lust inflame the pure consciousness of man.

The student of Christian Science is inspired to prove that the machinations of suppositional evil carry within themselves the seed of their own destruction. "The truths of immortal Mind sustain man," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 103), "and they annihilate the fables of mortal mind, whose flimsy and gaudy pretensions, like silly moths, singe their own wings and fall into dust."

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