Article June 24, 1950 Issue

MAN'S SAFETY ASSURED

ANNE R. ADAMS

One's safety lies in recognizing his true stature as a child of God, continually abounding in the grace and goodness of eternal manhood. Since God is everywhere and man is the expression of God, true selfhood is safe from danger because it is the evidence of the very presence of God. Where spiritual man is, error is nought, for where God is expressing Himself there is neither sorrow, sin, disease, nor death; there are only liberty, happiness, health, and prosperity.

How important it is, then, for everyone to awaken to the truth of his real being as a child of God, for with this awakening comes a spiritual sense of perfect health, happiness, and prosperity. How hallowed man's presence is when one knows that where man is, God is. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 361): "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads: 'For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.' " Since God and man coexist and are eternal, man is never outside of God's presence. He is never in matter; therefore he is never in danger. He is forever safe, unfallen, upright, and free. The beliefs of accident, disease, age, and blight cannot touch man. for he is fortressed and surrounded by good. Nothing can separate him from the infinite presence. Nothing can trespass on his right, as an heir of eternal good, to liberty, health, and prosperity.

Christian Science, in revealing the divine relationship between God and man, teaches us how to demonstrate it. It reveals that whatever testifies to life as temporary and to man as in danger—subject to accident, disease, and dissolution—is not true, but is an illusion of so called mortal mind, which bases its conclusions entirely upon material sense. This illusion can be dispelled and annulled through the realization that man is God's idea, or expression, and dwells in His allness and oneness, which has never been invaded by error.

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