Article January 17, 1953 Issue

"BE STRONG IN THE LORD"

JENNIE BAIRD SCHOOLEY

It requires moral courage and a firm reliance on infinite Mind to prove the truths of Christian Science as revealed to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and set forth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." One may ask why this is the case. The answer might be, Because the accepted isms and ologies of the world with which we were working, but which brought no relief to our various problems, are contradicted by Christian Science.

This Science soon becomes a beacon light, revealing God, who heals and comforts. Science thus satisfies our longings for a practical religion. This beacon light of Truth points the way to greater freedom and to more dominion. The awakened understanding of God as the great Physician, the unfailing help, and of man as God's expression results in better health, improved morals, and a realization of the nothingness of limitation. An increased knowledge of God's ever-presence also prevents many difficulties from appearing that might otherwise try to assert themselves in our lives.

Paul's words (Eph. 6:10), "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might," encourage us to strive even more earnestly to resist the belief in the presence of evil and to rise into a fuller realization that God, good, alone is real and has power. Impersonal error may attempt to force its way into consciousness, but refusal to accept its false claims enables one to rise superior to it and to manifest the harmony which belongs to man created in God's image and made to reflect His glory. The truths of God and man held firmly in thought bring an abiding consciousness of eternal Life, and this means, eventually, final victory over the flesh.

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