Editorial April 30, 1960 Issue

PROPERLY CASTING OUR ANCHOR OF HOPE

John J. Selover

"The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed," writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 40), "but," she adds, "in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us."

Are we really craving the harmony and safety which scientific Christianity offers? If so, we should be ready and willing to abandon the false, the material, beliefs which tie us to sin and disease and which ultimate in death. Within "the veil of matter" are errors of belief, which we should be glad to abandon. No one really enjoys sickness. No one loves lack or discord. These we should be happy to see eliminated. But they will continue to plague us as long as we are content to anchor our hopes and lives in materiality.

Material sense, or errors of belief, may with seeming logic inveigle one into anchoring his faith in material remedies. But it is unsafe for one to drop anchor in such a sea of matter. The only safe action for him to take when tempted so to anchor is to head for the secure refuge of Spirit offered by Christian Science. For greatest progress, our hopes must be anchored beyond matter, in God, Spirit—in the reality of divine Science.

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