Editorial March 4, 1950 Issue

THE FOLLY OF FEAR

George Channing

No one should ever be afraid, for no one in his true selfhood can ever be injured or destroyed. The destiny of every individual is to live forever, and that destiny excludes the possibility of injury in any degree at all. It is not the destiny of anyone to live forever in matter, for there is no way whereby one can live in matter; hence there is no way whereby one can continue to live in it. Man lives in God, infinite Spirit, divine Mind. He is the idea which God conceives and employs to make evident all that He has and is. As long as God lives man must live, and as perfect as God is man must be.

Why then should anyone fear? The truth is that no man does. Fear appears only to a hypnotized mentality which in its hypnotic dream accepts the necessity for fear. This hypnotized mentality is what Christian Science calls mortal mind, because in its hypnotic state it believes in the reality of its mortality, that is, of its own dead condition of materiality. But man is never conscious of any such condition. He cannot see the end of consciousness, nor can he entertain even a suggestion that individual awareness can be terminated or even impaired.

That marvelous fact regarding man can be proved by any individual to be the fact regarding himself. The great and spiritually-minded woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who brought to men the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus and named it Christian Science, has given emphatic assurance of this possibility. After predicting that sin, sickness, and death will yield when the Word is made flesh, meaning when it is made manifest in practical results, she declared (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 182, 183), "The lusts of the flesh and the pride of life will then be quenched in the divine Science of being; in the ever-present good, omnipotent Love, and eternal Life, that know no death."

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