Editorial July 23, 1949 Issue

OUR SURE DEFENSE

Helen Wood Bauman

No one is defenseless. The Scriptures record many instances wherein a sure defense was found in righteousness. They plainly teach that purity is power and that innocence is invulnerable. John the Baptist hailed Christ Jesus as "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). And it is the Lamb, symbol of innocence, or self-sacrifice, that typifies the power of purity throughout the Scriptures.

It is said that the lamb is an animal which has no means of self-protection. Christ Jesus had no worldly means of defense, but he proved his security in the face of evil's aggressions because he was "without sin." Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 567, 568): "Divine Science shows how the Lamb slays the wolf. Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error."

Goodness is its own defense against every form of evil; but goodness must be understood in its Science as originating in God, Spirit, and as manifested through man, God's spiritual idea, if it is to be utilized fully in that defense. Mrs. Eddy says in "Unity of Good" (p. 21): "Individual consciousness in man is inseparable from good. There is no sensible matter, no sense in matter; but there is a spiritual sense, a sense of Spirit, and this is the only consciousness belonging to true individuality, or a divine sense of being." It is through one's demonstration of spiritual sense that God's defense of righteousness is assured, for God preserves intact the concepts of His own creating.

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