The Healing that Makes no History

THE good and true alone have liberty and law of propagation, but if they may be anticipated, and the riches of their fruitage be effectively planned for and assured, no less certainly and wisely may evil be foreseen and its manifestations forestalled. Indeed, the only authorized history of any error is the history of its interdiction, and to this end Christian Science has come.

The best word we can ever write about a noxious weed or a bad temper is that a long time before their beginnings, we carefully and patiently gathered up all the seed and destroyed it. This is what gives such significance to the word protection as it is used in Christian Science, a word that should be as fully identified with our daily habit as it is with our vocabulary.

Before the morning stars sang together the eternal maintenance of all good things was provided for in the tender and unwearying activities of Love, and they be happy hearts and homes where alert and illumined thought makes permanent place for peace and joy by denying both ingress and reality to every sense of lurking ill which, without these daily demonstrations, would assert its presence and maintain its sway. Protection through Truth is thought for all time, but its realization is always immediate, and if in watchfulness and gratitude we are proving the keeping power of Love to-day we need not fear for our safety to-morrow.

How many afflictions would all have been spared, how many seeming disabilities to our Cause would have been avoided, had forethought waited upon faithfulness in guarding our every door against the evils that have come while men slept. "What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch."

And let gladness and joy abide with watchfulness. Every error that is wrestled with and overcome through Christian Science, witnesses to many which are defeated by anticipation. The strifeless victory is ever the greater achievement, and we have great occasion to sing again the songs of our fathers who while yet in Egypt, as are we, found that through prompt obedience their thresholds were passed by.

Love's protection is no less available than Love's cure, and a fitting commemoration of these thanksgiving days will include a grateful recognition of the absence of unnumbered burdens which, apart from the protecting shadow of Love's wing, it would have been ours to bear. W.

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