Article April 7, 1945 Issue

The Strong Defense of Virtue and Truth

LOUIS C. LOVEGROVE

Perhaps you have at some time seemed to suffer from the evil thoughts and acts of others because you have allowed a fear of them to abide in your consciousness.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, assures us on pages 234 and 235 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one's belief permits."According to this statement of truth, we can be affected by the wrong thoughts and deeds of others only to the degree that we believe in such errors, and give them a place in our thought. The teachings of Christian Science emphatically deny any power to error, but demonstrate its powerlessness and nothingness. Our Leader continues, "Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence."

Our work, then, as students of Christian Science is not to engage in some form of campaign to prevent other people from thinking evil thoughts about us, but rather to let virtue and truth build within us a strong defense against evil. We do this by steadfast reliance upon God and His omnipotence. Christ Jesus told the seventy, when he sent them forth on their healing mission, that he had given them power "over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19), and this power is ours to reflect today if we are willing to do so.

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