Truth Invincible

Ella W. Hoag

WHEN in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 380) our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, makes the tersely remarkable statement that "Truth is always the victor," she presents that which all the lies of error can never refute. She also thereby proclaims the way out of all evil. To be given in five small words a weapon of deliverance from all that is false is to awaken great gratitude in the hearts of those who are endeavoring to prove their freedom from sickness and sin. There can be no question but that all Christian Scientists are longing to demonstrate Mrs. Eddy's statement, and each hour they are praying and working to understand more clearly this invincibility of Truth.

Early in their association with Christian Science, its students accept the belief that Truth must eventually triumph; but to prove that it is "always the victor"—under all circumstances, at all times, and in all seasons, whatever may be its seeming opponent—appears to be quite another matter. It is, however, continually borne in upon Christian Scientists with ever greater insistence that it is their individual necessity to demonstrate constantly Truth's perfect potency. Mrs. Eddy also writes (Science and Health, p. 453), "Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of invincible truth." Thus does she refer to the warfare we must all enter upon and carry to a triumphant finish if we are to win the heaven—harmony—which, as the children of God, we have a right to enjoy.

Now, few of us would undertake a conflict unless we were convinced that the power to triumph over the enemy was with us; fewer still would enter upon a warfare unless certain that the cause to which we are allied has right on its side; and none of us would begin a struggle if defeat were a foregone conclusion. In invincible Truth we have from the start the assurance that the power to triumph is with it,—that all of right is on its side and that defeat is therefore impossible. What, then, is there left for us to do but to press forward to the successful proof of Truth's invincibility?

And what is Truth? And why is it invincible? Christian Science alone can answer these questions, since its entire textbook is the explanation of Truth. We learn therein that "God is Truth" (p. 312); therefore Truth is infinite, even as God is infinite; Truth is unconquerable, even as God is unconquerable; Truth is all-power, even as God is all-power; Truth also contains all that is true,—including all the infinite ideas of infinite Mind. Each true idea, therefore, partakes of Truth's infinite, perfect potency.

In this last fact lies the present availability of Truth for every need. And just how does Christian Science teach us to lay hold of and apply this infinite invincibility? By accepting the ideas of Truth and then clinging to them, declaring, loving, trusting, using them with that unfaltering faith which will cause mountains of error to disappear before them; for Jesus said, "Have faith in God [Truth];" and then he added, "Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."

Right here in the mentality of the student is where the warfare between right and wrong, between truth and error, takes place. Here is where all that is false must be recognized and relinquished, where all that is right and true must be believed, understood, used, until it is proved to belong to the invincibility of Truth itself. Here is where all doubt and unbelief must be rebuked, that Truth may be proved the alone power.

Then, as we study and watch and pray that the understanding of Truth may continually unfold in our consciousness, we shall become more and more convinced that the truth we thus love and use and realize will inevitably prove the unreality of all that is unlike itself. Thought by thought we shall demonstrate Truth's invincibility, for over every supposititious lie of belief, Truth will have been proved the victor!

Ella W. Hoag

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