Article February 6, 1954 Issue

"THE SECRET OF VICTORY"

LILIAN LAUFERTY WOLFE

Healing in Christian Science is an exalting experience. The first healing, often after what had seemed to be defeat, is unforgettable and has the quality of revelation; but when the young student has glimpsed the Christ, he seeks further proof of the power which has proved evil powerless.

As the understanding unfolds to the honest thinker that God is good and God is All, he cannot continue to believe that disappointment, disaster, and defeat are realities or that man is subservient to their pretense to power. Such belief is as illogical as it is unspiritual. "Experience is victor, never the vanquished; and out of defeat comes the secret of victory," declares Mary Baker Eddy on page 339 of "Miscellaneous Writings."

Gratitude for experiences in which he has proved evil a nonentity brings courage into the ascendant in the student's thought. "Courage" has been defined as "that quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and difficulties with firmness." The word derives from the Latin cor, meaning heart. Poets have sung that the uplifted heart can be so elevated above danger as to be unaware of it. But all this is useless to those who believe themselves victims of fear and are convinced that only a luck few are born courageous.

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