"Fear Not"

BY E. L. C.

As each receives the light of this glorious Truth of Christian Science and begins to demonstrate or prove it, the temptation often comes to look at things from the material point. How difficult seem the conditions to be met; how stubborn and tenacious the clinging to the material or the false, and with it comes the thought of our weakness or inability to meet and overcome them.

To such comes the helpful experience of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, recorded in the twentieth chapter of Second Chronicles. The narrative is truly wonderful in the light of Christian Science and will bear much study.

Here is a great multitude of mortal beliefs, fear, pride, selfishness, stubbornness—coming against us to battle—to be destroyed. Mortal sense fears before them, but we set our face to seek the Lord and ask help of Him. Is not Jehoshaphat's prayer ours? "O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? ... O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee."

Then Truth answers, "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's, ... Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you: ... fear not, nor be dismayed; ... go out against them: for the Lord will be with you." It is to stand and know the allness of God, Good, and the nothingness of error—evil—with the song on our lips, "Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth forever."

Then we too will see that there is nothing else to do—the demonstration is made; the claims of error can only destroy themselves and none shall escape. Then will come the "rest round about."

In the process of working out of the material into the spiritual, each is working from a different standpoint, no two natures or consciousness of thought being the same. Then it is not strange that we catch the different opinions of what Christian Science is or what constitutes a Christian Science life. Many a time there would have come to me confusion if I had not stopped my ears to the many voices and gone to the books—the Bible and the works of Mary Baker G. Eddy, the prophet of this age—where I heard only the Voice of Truth. This Voice so clear and sweet always helps me to know what is right to do. It says to me, "Love—love unselfishly, love everybody, your enemies, love the truly, love the good, the pure," and then will come through that love a sense of the divine Love that fulfils the law, that corrects and governs aright and meets our every need.

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