Article February 7, 1948 Issue

ERROR WITHOUT LOCATION

MARY BARNES

On page 469 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, observes, "We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God." To admit that evil can have a place is to believe that God, good, can sometimes be absent. In other words, such an admission constitutes a denial of the Father's omnipresence; yet we read in the Scriptures (Jer. 23:24), "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord."

Omnipresent good obviously can leave no space or place for any other presence or power. This glorious fact is the basis of the teaching of Christian Science, which inculcates the absolute allness of God and the utter nothingness of anything and everything unlike Him. Error claims a place in which it can secrete itself, a vantage ground from which it can operate, but the alert Scientist is always on mental guard, ready to refuse error any location in his consciousness, because he knows that by so doing he can exclude it from his experience.

It is impossible for error to locate itself anywhere. The realization that the only place evil can have is the place we, in belief, give it teaches us that we are always free to refuse it, and so frees us from the lurking fear that we can at any time become its victims. Clinging to the fact that because infinity belongs to God, Truth, and that therefore error has no location, gives us the victory.

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