Article January 2, 1954 Issue

"MORE FAITH THAN FEAR"

GLENN L. MORNING

A Christian Scientist relating an experience of her youth at a time when she evidenced strong faith in the power and availability of good told of being healed in one Christian Science treatment of what had been diagnosed as a severe case of blood poisoning. Her remarks included the following statement: "In those days I had more faith than fear."

"More faith than fear." This is what the world needs today—more childlike faith in the presence and power of good, and less of the fear that apparently binds mortals to sin, sickness, and disease. Fear is based on the false premise of mortal existence with birth, growth, age, decrepitude, and death as its stages. It is fear that seems to give root to all inharmony. A childlike faith in the ever-presence of God, good, is a powerful defense against the intrusion of fearful beliefs into one's thought.

Faith is a quality expressed naturally by children, for purity and faith characterize their thought. Christ Jesus, calling a little child to him, said to his disciples (Matt. 18: 3, 4): "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Our great Way-shower stressed the need of maintaining the childlike quality of faith throughout human experience, and Christian Science shows us how this is done, how childlike faith can mature into spiritual understanding.

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