Editorial June 10, 1961 Issue

"The curse causeless"

Helen Wood Bauman

The author of Proverbs likens the unwarranted curse to the aimless flight of birds. He says (26:2), "As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come." The protection of all that has its source in God is demonstrable through Christian Science, and any attempt of the carnal mind to interfere with this protection can be proved futile and powerless. Blessing, not cursing, awaits all righteousness.

Christ Jesus was teaching the basis for the metaphysical protection of one suffering from groundless imprecation when he admonished his followers (Matt. 5: 44, 45), "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you ... that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 517), "Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,—to manifest His power." Here is a statement of spiritual fact which may be utilized as a law of protection if error claims to curse good either by deliberate intention or by ignorant belief. The curse of evil would diminish our good and make our right motives fruitless. But evil must find something evil upon which to prey if it is to claim any effectiveness whatever. "The curse causeless" is nullified by the scientific truth that God alone motivates man and that there is no evil in man upon which a curse may rest.

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