In one of his letters to that courageous early Christian worker, Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote (II Tim. 1:7), "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
It is well to pause frequently to ponder what God has given us, as well as to consider what God has not given us. Using the words of Paul as the basis for our thinking, let us consider his message. "God hath not given us the spirit of fear," he declared. Fear, which claims to wield such power over men's thinking, is challenged thus by Mrs. Eddy in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 61): "Science saith to fear, 'You are the cause of all sickness; but you are a selfconstituted falsity,—you are darkness, nothingness. You are without "hope, and without God in the world." You do not exist, and have no right to exist, for "perfect Love casteth out fear.'""
Who better than the writer of those words could speak so authoritatively on the subject of fear? A study of the unfoldment of the Christian Science movement and its world-embracing activities reveals the conquest over many arguments of fear.
