Editorial May 7, 1949 Issue

"LET US ... COME BOLDLY"

George Channing

Adherents of divine Truth are necessarily bold. Without a right understanding of boldness and correct practice of it, demonstration of the power of divine Truth, God, may appear to lag in one's experience. Any person who intends his prayer to be more than lip action must first understand the exclusive presence of God and His creation and then boldly affirm and realize the truth of what he understands.

Paul knew this. It was that knowledge which led him to exhort the Christians he addressed in the fourth chapter of his epistle to the Hebrews: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

Coming boldly to the throne of grace is not coming with the bravado of mortal sense. It is not coming with noisiness or rudeness incident to so-called muscular force. It is not coming with wishful willfulness even when unaccompanied by so-called physical action. It is coming with spiritual understanding, which knows no opposition and is therefore unreluctant and unafraid. It is coming to God, confident of man's unity with Him and assured of welcome in divine Mind, which, in fact, man, the idea of Mind, never leaves.

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