"There are none friendless, none afraid," one of the hymns in the Christian Science Hymnal joyously assures us. These words lilting through consciousness awakened a student of Christian Science the morning she was to set forth alone for the first time in her experience on a journey from the east coast to the Pacific and back again.
She happily acknowledged that the lovely assurance of the song came from divine Mind, and was the direct result of the mental victory she had won before falling asleep. Several hours the night before she had battled against an almost overwhelming fear of going so far away alone. But when she was able to draw close enough to God in her thinking she had felt safe and perfectly companioned.
Later, when the bus drew away from the city in which she lived, leaving her family behind, she was well aware that her safety and happiness from that point forward depended on her alert obedience to Love. Hours spent as a student in the Christian Science Sunday School had instilled in her thought the truth that she could "walk with Love along the way." Therefore she knew the sure remedy for parting and aloneness was to love more— impartially, universally, and constantly.
