Article November 1, 2013

Intrenchment

Originally published in the November 8, 1917 issue of The Christian Science Monitor

In warfare one purpose of trenches is, of course, protection. The trenches of to-day, just as in the time of David, represent the best protection that the human mind has been able to devise in the circumstances. Since any human concept, however, is but a counterfeit of the perfect spiritual idea, Christian Science requires us to turn our attention to the truth about even intrenchment.

What is the one perfect protection? What is the true intrenchment which must be understood by all who would put on the whole armor of God? The one surety is simply that Life is indeed eternal. In the trenches to-day the soldiers themselves are getting glimpses of this fundamental fact and are willing, therefore, to turn more and more from a human sense of life to Principle. No one can give up immortality. Consciousness demonstrably is, and what really is always is, for it could not possibly include any element of nonexistence, any element of destruction. Infinite divine consciousness, which, in the last analysis, is all that probably exists, is God, in whom man lives and moves and has his being. Instead of living in a material body, man lives thus as the forever expression of indestructible consciousness. The sureness of this must take the place of any fear.

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