In a recent address to the nation, the President of the United States of America declared with conviction that the Armed Forces of his country would never be used for any purpose other than for defense. And he declared that in his judgment the combined forces of the free nations of the world are adequate to defend themselves against any aggressive counterforces which would attempt to wage war.
But the main defense of the free world is not to be found in material armaments, however necessary these may be at present. It depends on the daily work of each individual to defend himself against the aggressive suggestions of the carnal mind, which the Apostle Paul declared "is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7).
This daily defense of one's mentality against the false claims of evil and materiality is a duty of every Christian Scientist. In a notice on page 237 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy refers Christian Scientists to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," page 442, lines 30-32, and tells them to give this instruction their daily attention. It reads as follows: "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake." (See also the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art. VIII, Sect. 6.)
