"Let integrity and uprightness preserve me," declared the Psalmist, "for I wait on thee." From Genesis to Revelation the Bible teaches that defense from danger, moral and physical, is to be found in the individual's conscious reliance upon God. While there are ample Scriptural records of methods designed to manipulate and subjugate men's minds, the facilities of modern invention for swift and far-reaching transmission of speech and the printed word were lacking in those days. Today highly organized assaults upon the well-nigh universal thought of mankind are being deliberately undertaken, designed to sway and mold its decisions. Nevertheless, Nehemiah's experience and his method of dealing with unscrupulous propagandists continue to be of great value. Nehemiah, waiting upon God, was able immediately to recognize the falsity and powerlessness of evil suggestions; thus was his own, and the morale of those who worked with him, preserved.
The ninety-first Psalm, among the greatest fortifications, the most powerful reinforcements and dynamic offensives against evil with which the human mind has been provided, instructs us in a strategy that never fails, provides us with weapons of defense which cannot be broken.
Mary Baker Eddy, knowing that all warfare is of mental origin, saw what confronted humanity, though its form was as yet but partially developed. She well knew the cost of uncovering it, the resistance she would encounter, no less from those who believed they could remain complacently undisturbed in a sense of human security in good, than from those who desired to remain Undisturbed in their prosecution of evil. But she persevered, resolute and intrepid in her task. On page 570 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes: "The march of mind and of honest investigation will bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of this period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet unseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extreme mortal mood,—into human indignation; for one extreme follows another."
