Almost everyone holds some kind of guard over what he considers his world. The question is, How effective is that guard? And how healing is it? Is it a series of small wars—an attempt to overcome evil as a reality? Are we believing that there are two forces at work, one good and one evil, both equally valid? Or is our guard a holding to spiritual dominion, which bears witness to God's allness, His omnipresence, and His manifestation?
At Gethsemane Christ Jesus patiently chided his disciples for sleeping: "Could ye not watch with me one hour?" Matt. 26:40; Mrs. Eddy comments, "Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voiceless agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world?" Science and Health, p. 48;
Today, we may still ask ourselves how we can watch and hold effective, uncomplaining guard over the changing world we see around us and hear about constantly. We can open our eyes and ears by exercising our spiritual faculties and letting the realities of God, man, and the universe flood in on us from the divine source, divine Mind. Then we begin to see the practical fact that the new heaven and new earth of John's apocalyptic vision is at hand, to be recognized, acknowledged, and progressively demonstrated. We gather the facts of being from Soul just as the Master did. We confront the testimony of sense with evidence gathered from Spirit.
