Article November 16, 1940 Issue

Outstanding Error

[Written Especially for Children]

ALICE DAVIS SHELMIRE

HAVE you ever watched your shadow? Sometimes in the morning it stretches out long and slender before you. At other times it marches along at your side or falls behind. But the shadow is not yourself.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy tells us (pp. 510, 511), "Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by itsown light and governing the universe, including man, in perfect harmony." Christian Science teaches us that this Mind, or Spirit, is God, perfect, boundless, unchanging. Its perfect harmony fills all space, and man dwells safely and happily in its presence. Its light shines throughout his entire being. There can be no darkness in the realm of Spirit, Mind, because there is no matter in Spirit.

When the truth of God's presence and power glows steadfastly in our hearts and is held uppermost in thought, no false beliefs concerning ourselves or others can obstruct that light, can succeed in casting in our path, along the way, any shadow of unhappiness, fear, or sickness. Mrs. Eddy has written (ibid., p. 474), "Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and darkness cannot dwell together." Yes, the understanding of God's goodness and nearness outshines all error—it makes no difference where or what it may appear to be.

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