Through the study of Christian Science, the Science of infinite good, many are being liberated from the bonds of fear, and are enjoying God's infinite, ever-present goodness. How often are decisions made difficult, and how often are right motives restrained, by fear! How often men are deprived of the better things of life—protection, success, health, happiness, and plenty—because of fear! How often, too, things perhaps long feared never occur!
Having learned that fear—lack of true courage—is a perplexing handicap, and learning also that one who reflects God is capable of mastering whatever is not good, who would not rightly resist fear? For scientifically to resist fear and master it adds to the success of right business transactions and ventures, dissolves discord and disease, and replaces poverty with plenty. Through Christian Science we learn that all suffering, discord, disease, failure, and want are products of either our ignorance of God, good, our fear of suppositional evil, or our disobedience to the law of divine Principle.
"Moral courage," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 514 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "is 'the lion of the tribe of Juda,' the king of the mental realm." Indeed, true moral courage, not in the least akin to animal courage, is a man's most powerful faculty. It is a receptive state of consciousness through which one is capable of achieving whatever is good. Moral courage is not more generally demonstrated and enjoyed because of the false mortal belief in suppositional evil. Studying Christian Science, one soon begins to learn that evil, in whatever form it may appear, is but illusion; that it is nothing and nowhere, because God, good, is infinite and fills all space. Then, since evil is all that is ever feared, and evil is a myth, all fear must be superficial and mythical. Would it be difficult for one to be morally courageous, fearless, if he thoroughly understood that there is really nothing to fear?
