Article May 15, 1954 Issue

MAN IS SAFE FROM DESTRUCTION

WALTER BRENZIKOFER

The Psalmist confidently exclaimed (Ps. 46: 1, 2, 7): "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.... The Lord of hosts is with us."

Today Christian Science assures mankind with the great spiritual fact that man is indestructible and eternal. Through its study and application all may attain and maintain the peace and security rightfully belonging to man. Science reveals God not only as infinite, all-knowing, omnipotent Mind, but also as ever-present, impartial, universal Love. As the loving Father, God bestows on His children His constant tender care and protection. Can we imagine that God who is Love would for one moment give up some of His all power and allow it to be used for the punishment and destruction of man, whom He made in His perfect likeness?

No, God is Love and indivisible, the one Mind or consciousness. He is the only generator and source of power, force, and energy, and these work only to maintain and unfold good. Speaking of the protection unfailingly experienced by those who are governed by Mind and animated by Love, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 243), "The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age and triumph over sin and death." To this assurance, however, Mrs. Eddy adds the following qualification: "But the same 'Mind . . . which was also in Christ Jesus' must always accompany the letter of Science in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophets and apostles."

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