TARGET OUT OF RANGE

A Practitioner of Christian Science was called to the home of one in distress. The sufferer was a Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. She was convinced that because of this she was a target for mortal mind's hatred of Truth. The practitioner seemed unable to persuade the patient otherwise. Finally the practitioner said: "Well, if you will be a target, be one. But, for goodness' sake, be a target out of range."

A target out of range! What vistas this opens. To be out of range is to be out of reach, beyond the limited shafts of the aggressor. The bird has but to spread its wings and mount to azure heights to be beyond the range of the sharpshooter.

Can we be as fetterless and free as the bird? Of course we can. The beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, pointing to man's inherent freedom, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 223), "Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter instead of in Spirit." Fetters forged by illusion are illusions, not realities.

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