Article July 28, 1945 Issue

Where Is True Safety?

GILBERT B. A. WILLIAMS

Safety is a proper concern of servicemen and servicewomen. Moses revealed the source of true safety when he said (Deut. 33:27, Rev. Ver.), "The eternal God is thy dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms." Unassailable safety, then, is realized solely through dwelling in the consciousness of God's presence. It is, therefore, quite apart from, and independent of, any material conditions. Danger, the opposite of safety, can appear only when we allow ourselves to be mesmerized into forgetting God's presence, and this is the only danger there ever is or can be.

We do not have to wait until we have overcome the belief in a material body before we can begin to dwell in God. The Bible abounds in accounts of protection experienced as the direct result of a cultivated spiritual understanding. We can begin to dwell in God, divine consciousness, now, through the understanding of His ever-presence, and thereby experience the certain safety which this state of consciousness confers.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 587 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," gives seven synonyms for God. These are: "Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love." When we lay hold of these synonyms and express them in our daily life, we in the services can reason somewhat as follows.

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