Article April 2, 1949 Issue

A Christian Science Reader gets convincing proof of the divine law operating in human affairs

WHY STAND AGHAST?

ROYAL P. MAULSBY

One of the temptations often confronting the Christian Scientist is the belief that something, or some place, or someone is "under attack." We use this phraseology all too lightly, for although in the human realm such a condition may seem to be true, error's claim to be able to do anything whatsoever is fraudulent and must be refuted. Darkness cannot attack light, error cannot resist Truth, nor can ignorance refuse to disappear in the presence of enlightenment. Ignorant mortals may resist Truth at its first appearing, but this opposition is negative and mindless and possesses not an iota of power.

God knows no opposition, nor does His likeness, man. The belief that there is a powerful foe is evil's own lying assertion, and man, the reflection of Principle, is absolutely oblivious of it and impervious to it. Man is completely cared for by God, the infinitely good and tender Parent of all His loved children.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy comments upon the falsity of error's claim to power, unveiled in the Apocalypse, thus (p. 563): "Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal. We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and death. We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?" How easy it is to handle the inventions of evil when we perceive that they are lies and even to express love towards the one who may appear as their agent, when we recognize their absolute nothingness.

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