THE promise of divine protection and succor given in the ninety-first psalm reads, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Among dictionary definitions of the term "dwell" is this: "Keep one's attention fixed; make one's abode." To fix attention implies alertness, in order to attain a clear recognition of a fact to the exclusion of disturbing or distracting influences; while to recognize is to "acknowledge as valid."
To acknowledge God as All-in-all is to recognize the truth about God. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 454), "The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path,—the path which leads to the house built without hands 'eternal in the heavens.'" In the study of the Bible through the light which Christian Science brings to the understanding, it becomes increasingly apparent that the promises contained therein are as true today as when written, and of as great practical import now as then to mankind, in all conditions.
Christian Science reveals God as Life, and man as His image and likeness,—spiritual, perfect, and complete, ever the expression of divine Love. Pleasure and pain in matter are seen to be merely modes of material belief, without divine Principle or Mind; and they are therefore powerless to affect or disturb the spiritual idea, man, who dwells forever "in the secret place" as the reflection of his Maker.
