One's safety lies in recognizing his true stature as a child of God, continually abounding in the grace and goodness of eternal manhood. Since God is everywhere and man is the expression of God, true selfhood is safe from danger because it is the evidence of the very presence of God. Where spiritual man is, error is nought, for where God is expressing Himself there is neither sorrow, sin, disease, nor death; there are only liberty, happiness, health, and prosperity.

How important it is, then, for everyone to awaken to the truth of his real being as a child of God, for with this awakening comes a spiritual sense of perfect health, happiness, and prosperity. How hallowed man's presence is when one knows that where man is, God is. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 361): "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads: 'For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.' " Since God and man coexist and are eternal, man is never outside of God's presence. He is never in matter; therefore he is never in danger. He is forever safe, unfallen, upright, and free. The beliefs of accident, disease, age, and blight cannot touch man. for he is fortressed and surrounded by good. Nothing can separate him from the infinite presence. Nothing can trespass on his right, as an heir of eternal good, to liberty, health, and prosperity.

Christian Science, in revealing the divine relationship between God and man, teaches us how to demonstrate it. It reveals that whatever testifies to life as temporary and to man as in danger—subject to accident, disease, and dissolution—is not true, but is an illusion of so called mortal mind, which bases its conclusions entirely upon material sense. This illusion can be dispelled and annulled through the realization that man is God's idea, or expression, and dwells in His allness and oneness, which has never been invaded by error.

Christ Jesus, the greatest of all teachers, declared, "I and my Father are one," and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 10:30; 14:10). Vividly the Master perceived that he was the evidence of God. He knew that where he was, God was. He knew that because he lived and had his being in God, he was safe from error's so-called claims to power. He overcame death and the grave for himself and others, thus proving the allness and goodness of God. Because he was the great Way-shower, he has given to the world a pattern for living which enables all to claim and demonstrate eternal life.

Christian Science reaffirms the teachings of Jesus and shows us how to make them practical and demonstrable in our daily experience. One Christian Scientist was called upon by a friend to help her son, who had been injured while playing college baseball. The physician on the field said that the youth had sustained a broken jaw, which should be attended to by a surgeon at once. Instead of seeking material aid, the boy turned to God for help, asking his mother to call upon her friend to help him. The friend at once knew that she could do nothing, but that with God all things are possible. As she searched for the truth of the situation, God gave her the ideas she needed. She saw clearly that the boy had never been outside of God's presence. His true selfhood, being indestructible, had never been touched by error. Nothing could separate him from the harmony which was his as a child of God. No accident had occurred in God's infinite, perfect realm. God's love had always encircled him. These thoughts, along with many others of like nature, were held to throughout the evening. The boy ate a hearty dinner that evening and returned to school the next day perfectly healed.

In similar fashion, claims of lack and limitation can be eliminated through the realization that man's well-being is assured by the presence of God. Where spiritual man is, the presence of substance is inevitable. Eternal and true substance is forever at hand to be expressed by man as God's reflection. Man cannot need or want anything good, for he already has all there is to have as a child of God. This supply of good is brought into human experience through realization and demonstration.

We read in "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 307): "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment." This inheritance of good belongs to all who will acknowledge their true relationship with God, to all who will claim their real identity as children of God.

One may ask, "How can I feel this relationship with God which, assures my safety from danger and limitation?" The answer is, "By acknowledging and demonstrating one's true selfhood as the child of God, forever one with Him as His spiritual and perfect reflection." Mrs. Eddy writes (Unity of Good, p. 17): "Emerson says, 'Hitch your wagon to a star.' I say, Be allied to the deific power, and all that is good will aid your journey, as the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. (Judges v. 20.) Hourly, in Christian Science, man thus weds himself with God, or rather he ratifies a union predestined from all eternity."

To feel the security of dwelling in the presence of God's dear love, one should acknowledge the good which is already his by reflection. His thoughts must abide in God and His goodness, in the unselfed consciousness of oneness with God and his fellow men. He must refuse to believe that man can ever be in danger or experience anything that God cannot experience, on the ground that man is safe in his Father's love and that nothing can mar or molest his true selfhood.

In the world today we are confronted with suggestions that mankind kind is in danger from forces and latent powers over which he does not have control. These suggestions are but collective arguments of mortal mind and should not alarm the one who knows wherein his safety lies. These arguments, however, should not be feared, but handled as definitely and firmly as one denounces the individual claims of error within human consciousness. Spiritual man, individually and collectively, is safe in his Father's love. The divine relationship which exists between God and man not only must be recognized, but must be expressed in daily words and daily deeds. Where spiritual man is, there is God. And where God is, there are safety and security now and forever.