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Hope anchored in God

No matter where in the world we are, we can look to divine Love for comfort and guidance in times of aggression and injustice.

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History shows that error repeats itself until it is exterminated. Surely the wisdom of our forefathers is not added but subtracted from whatever sways the sceptre of self and pelf over individuals, weak provinces, or peoples. Here our hope anchors in God who reigns, and justice and judgment are the habitation of His throne forever.
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Message to The Mother Church for 1900,” p. 10

God reigns, and will “turn and overturn” until right is found supreme.
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” p. 80

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
– Romans 8:35, 37

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.... He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust.
– Psalms 91:1, 2, 4

In heavenly Love abiding,
   No change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding,
   For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me,
   My heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me,
   And can I be dismayed?
– Anna L. Waring, “Christian Science Hymnal,” No. 148

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