Article November 2, 1946 Issue

"Fear not, little flock"

WILLIAM S. BEACH

Mankind is awakening to see that the perfection of God and man is a present and eternal reality, and that the belief in and fear of evil are illusions. In the degree that men realize the divine perfection, they come into the possession of their birthright as children of God, find the peace of Love, and realize the promise of the Master (Luke 12:32), "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

The material senses appear to present evidence in direct opposition to this fact, but we can confidently deny such evidence because it conflicts with the truth revealed in Christian Science that God is the primal and perfect cause of all that really exists. The student of this Science often approaches its study much in the spirit of the pioneer who goes into a new country to prepare the way for better things. However, because Truth is its own interpreter, he soon comes to understand in some measure how Truth operates to bless mankind.

The steadfast excluding from thought all material pictures which would make evil appear as real as good, awakens us to the joyous understanding that divine Love rewards according to our earnest desire to acquaint ourselves with God. As we accept the boundless goodness of God as a scientific fact, there dawns on human consciousness a realization of the false nature of fear. Jesus made it abundantly clear to his followers that if they would reject a material sense of life, fear would have no dominion over them. Man's life, as Paul states in his letter to the Colossians (3:3), is "hid with Christ in God." Non-intelligent evil cannot find him there, and to be conscious of man as dwelling in Spirit is to be out of the reach of evil.

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