Article October 23, 1948 Issue

"THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDA"

HORACE A. PULLAR

On page 514 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures'" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read: "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.'"

Mrs. Eddy stands out as a shining example of moral courage. For years she faced alone the world's ridicule, persecution, and hate before others came forward to help her establish the Cause of Christian Science. The carnal mind, recognizing its destroyer, resisted by every possible means the publication of her divinely inspired textbook containing the final revelation of Truth, with definite rules for demonstrating the Principle of Christian healing. Later she incurred and triumphantly surmounted further opposition in establishing her church and building it upon the rock of Christ-healing. Our Leader's clear insight into the spiritual facts of being enabled her to express moral courage and continued to bring her security and calm in many severely trying situations.

Just as the understanding of man's true status as God's reflection, governed solely by divine Principle, supported Mrs. Eddy's sublime faith and dauntless courage in those pioneer days of Christian Science, so can this understanding enable every faithful follower of our Leader's teachings to maintain the freedom, fearlessness, and calm of true moral courage and therein surmount any argument of the carnal mind which claims to obstruct spiritual progress.

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