Article April 12, 1947 Issue

"Free and fearless"

ROSEMARY C. COBHAM

A Woman undergoing a difficult experience, which appeared to be affecting her physically and mentally, longed for healing in Christian Science. She knew enough of its redemptive power to know that healing was possible, but as each morning dawned she accepted the dreary suggestion that she was not out of the woods yet. Indeed, it did not appear as if she were even moving in the direction of the outskirts of the woods, or in any way emerging, gradually or otherwise, into the light of spiritual understanding and healing.

Confused, bewildered, and depressed, she turned, as Christian Scientists have been educated to do, to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, praying that she might receive the message which would lead her thought in the right direction. As she opened the book to page 514, her attention was attracted by two marginal headings: "God's thoughts are spiritual realities," and "Qualities of thought." The paragraphs under these headings are written in elucidation of a verse from the first chapter of Genesis. The woman saw that the qualities of thought mentioned in these two paragraphs belong to man in God's image and likeness. She decided to make a list of these qualities and to utilize at least one each day, thus proving it to be inherent in her real being.

The first part of the passage she had chosen for study reads thus: "Mind's infinite ideas run and disport themselves. In humility they climb the heights of holiness. Moral courage is 'the lion of the tribe of Juda,' the king of the mental realm. Free and fearless it roams in the forest. Undisturbed it lies in the open field, or rests in 'green pastures,... beside the still waters.'" The qualities of thought which she listed in connection with this passage were activity, humility, moral courage, freedom, fearlessness, and rest or peace. In the same manner she listed the qualities found in the following paragraph.

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