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FEAR UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

From the March 1945 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Job, floundering in the morass of human opinions, cried (Job 3:25), "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me." David, however, the inspired Psalmist, lifting his vision above the evidence of the deceitful senses, sang exultingly (Ps. 23:1), "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

Many there are who, echoing Job's cry, become fearful of fear itself, as though it contained an inexorable law that could create the condition feared. God is the only creator, and in the all-inclusive goodness of divine Mind matter and evil find no place. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 264), "Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit." Fear, which is an element of the belief in the reality of matter, has only the power this supposititious mind gives it.

Belief in the power of fear to create error paralyzes one's mental effort to lift consciousness above the appearance of the evil condition, and thus prevents one from demonstrating the harmonious control of God's divine government.

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