Editorial October 26, 1968 Issue

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus once warned, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." He went on to say, "Ye shall know them by their fruits."^{Matt. 7:15;} Metaphysically considered, could not wolves in sheep's clothing refer, not to men, but to the five material senses that are part of the human self?

This may seem to be a startling conclusion to people who have always accepted the senses without question. But it is through these senses that people cognize matter and mortal existence, and it is in them that all sin, sickness, and death appear to take place. The intensity of evil to which these "wolves" often descend is shocking to true followers of Jesus, who master the senses and hold them in subjection to God, good. Christian Science declares that eventually the false senses must be abandoned by everyone and life be spiritually defined apart from them.

Christian Science shows that no one need let the physical senses claim him as their own or beguile him into doing the will of evil either to express sickness or to yield to sin. This metaphysical Science reveals the way to silence the senses and in this way help mankind escape the degradation or the suffering that inevitably follows submission to their demands.

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